[…]moved into the cinema industry. John Ammonds 15:37 Whatever. I then, they asked me if I'd like to go down to Bristol where variety department they called it variety in those days, light entertainment now. They'd been moved down there. John P. Hamilton […]
[…]e franchise. I mean, it was a combination of that marvellous…it was Tim Heward, David Coleman, James MacTaggart, Alan…whatever his name was…the variety chap…and I. Tim as the Director of Programmes. I as the Deputy Director…so we tried for Yorkshire Television ages before…when York[…]
[…]er.So the fact was that throughout my service with the exception of two years in the ‘60s I always insisted on working in a region and I did so for a variety of reasons which didn't occur to me at first but as time went on and I found that the work, especially later when I when I went into televisio[…]
[…]e and his castle. But you see, it's the talent of the people. I mean, Pops, remember, he was also a great influence in filmmakers, and he had a great variety of people in different fields, all made over as the sort of main metropolis, you might say, are filmmakers, areRoy Fowler 23:22 we[…]
[…]with in its 26-minute running time one fateful Sunday matinee. After surviving the trials of the afternoon issues, Sunday evenings provided their own variety of the bizarre. I often wondered why, when it came to rounding up the usherettes for ice cream tray duties on the main evening screening, they[…]
[…] him was the 14th of June 1947. It was called Variety Express and it was, like the title suggests, a […]
[…]However, that was hostel life. But I went and worked for Michael and the first show I did with him was the 14th of June 1947. It was called Variety Express and it was, like the title suggests, a variety bill which had Donald Stewart and Rene Stewart, Donald Houston and Rene Stewart in[…]
[…]e theatre, maybe for the same reason, or the stars used to go with the ENSA [Entertainments National Service Association] lot overseas, so the London variety theatres still had to be filled, so I think more people had to be filled like that.RF: It was a very important profession, the home front mora[…]
[…]ess for A Town Like Alice; the BBC’s TV Award for Best Actress for Romeo and Juliet; the Belgian Prix Femina Award for Carve Her Name with Pride; the Variety Club’s Best Actress Award for Born Free; a nomination for Best Actress in Cheap in August, one of TV’s Shades of Green series. Transcribe[…]
[…]was doing a number at the piano which I'd written which was really just sending up these old home time numbers, straw hat number and cane with an old variety artiste's daughter who was a tiny little girl with a mass of red curls on top. And who Tony Guthrie called the sponge because he could see her[…]
