[…]ive because they didn't send me to Venezuela, but a few days later I got an invitation for a party being given for a representative from Shell in the United Kingdom, who was coming over and going to Venezuela, and his name was Edgar 6Anstey and would I go. I said "I’d like to go there because I[…]
[…]l girl, I used to have tea with Max Beerbohm and the man who translated the last volume of Proust and my great uncle Frank was one of the new lilien? artists. I mean, you know, are you what can you say?Alan Lawson 20:00 She liked that kind of information, of course.Ann Turner 20:02[…]
[…]was very very thrilled for John because it was a dangerous film I was also thrilled for Jerry Hellman a director who produced it because they and for United Artists they'd all gone out on a limb with this movie and it was a big success and this this last year we had the 25th anniversary of Midnight […]
[…]ost of them. I was conscious of world politicsin the sense of Central European politics and Germany and Nazis. I was not particularly consciousof the United States and the Far East but European politics did pre-occupy our attention and also Ibegan to study military history. I began to get interested[…]
[…]the originals left because Sidney [Box] brought in all his own people. So it was during that period between leaving Gainsborough and starting up with United Artists, that I spent most of the year writing or in California having a break.RF: What are you memories of California in ‘46.VG: I had a lot o[…]
[…]er, Planet 24 then, had absolutely nothing…I think they did a couple of rekkies or something -Bob Geldof- flew over on Concorde to see, you know, the United States, (Bob’s not frightfully polite about this.) and the… then sort of dropped out of it but has got a credit.41:00 So, about 3 years ago it […]
[…]ry much to myself and also, Cubby, bro, is not the guy to say very much about editing. So I suppose, by and large as an odd comments from people from United Artists that came over to the theatre, I don't think you know, there's much there that isn't mine, good or bad, whatever you like to say about […]
[…]gain before we could shoot. Again there was very little technique involved in that. Again Sammy was making these for New Era who were handing them to United Artists had one of them, I think Warners had one of them, this was filmmaking really at its worse. It was £1 a foot. And on that particular fil[…]
[…]such a bloody long time ago I find it difficult, but Gloria Swanson came and hired the studio [for Perfect Understanding] and I think she was part of United Artists or something, but she [annoyed?] everybody, the Director her millionaire husband was in it, and sometimes she would arrive into the stu[…]
[…]ular customer base”. Local Tyne-Tees Weatherman Bob Johnson was a fairly regular visitor as was footballer John Barnes during his period at Newcastle United. Barnes would arrive with his own children and often with additional young friends of said brood. He would always treat them all to treats at t[…]
