Anthony Mendleson – Transcript

[…] joined the staff of Ealing Studios as costume designer and wardrobe supervisor in 1947. He remained at Ealing until the […]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]ay. Because I'd never been in a studio really, working, at all. And I not only found that the lady whose place I'd took was not a designer, she was a wardrobe supervisor and when there was any designing to be done in any of the films at Ealing, she used to farm it out.Linda Wood : Oh...Anthony Mendl[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…]re till’ I was about eight months’ pregnant I think at Glyndebourne. Zeffirelli was there and it was really fascinating and wonderful, working in the wardrobe with the [unintelligible] with all the singing and rehearsals going on, it was really magic. And then what did I do? I can’t remember, oh I s[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]dly stand up in it. And I remember during that time was my first visit to a film studio ever and I think we went to Denholm one day and I thought the wardrobe mistress was terribly hard-hearted because she wouldn’t change somebody’s shoes. I sort of learnt later you’ve got to be a bit tough sometime[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]d come in, the designer, and say, ‘Daphne, do so-and-so and so-and-so’, you know, ‘Give us a list of so-and-so’. Or she’d leave me to do all the wardrobe lists and all the make-up lists which I didn’t like doing at all, I hated all that, and when I became a director I used to leave th[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]ng to make a big ploy on this film and she's going to really hit the headlines so she thinks so. She asked John whether she can go and choose her own wardrobe but I'm one of these Italian.Haute Couture places Sure sure sure yes. Go didn't choose it we get a message that she wants to have her dress p[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] go.”[Side 3, 26 mins]Went back to the office, I had never handled a TV show in my life. To talk about 1-inch and 2-inch lenses and even props versus wardrobe versus whatever. The usual thing, you’ve got to make it visual which is not necessarily so. I went back and luckily what I’d done in 1948, I […]
Scroll to Top