Dicky Leeman

[…]ed to do a sketch about the cricket. So we decided - first of all we wanted an Australian cricket cap for Eric to wear on his nut - as a batsman. And wardrobe told me they couldn't get one. So I found out myself where the Australian team was staying, and they were at the Park Lane Hotel. So I got ho[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]get married to Brian Langley.Oh yes.And I thought that’s for me.Yes.I’m going in there. So I borrowed... Oh no actually before that I got a job in theWardrobe, there was a place in the Wardrobe so I got a job in the Wardrobe for fifteen pounds a week and while I was in...Fifteen pounds a week?Fiftee[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…] was a clerk for up until the war but in the war, he went into answer and came out of vencer having done the Far East with my mother too. She went as wardrobe visitors. We found ourselves but Alright, so now so now I was D mobbed a strange period of one's life where I think you felt as uncomfortable[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]re when I left the bush to take a whole lot of stuff with me. There were artists breakdowns, sheduled, shooting schedule, sexual breakdown, scheduled wardrobe plots and everything. And I look around the guild and I thought what is a pretty coming out for they could do with a really good assistant. S[…]

Les Hilling

[…]years.00:12:50 – 00:21:30 LH had a lot of relatives working in the studios (12 Hillings in total) – mostly Gaumont British working as an electrician, wardrobe master & mistress, stagehands, or in the wood mill/timber store; an uncle was killed on location of a Jesse Matthews film; LH’s uncle Alf[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]Harold said, "Don't despair, there's another part I don't think they've cast, but you must change your clothes for it." So he took me upstairs to the wardrobe and put me on an awful old coat and skirt, I remember, and some flat heeled shoes and scraped my hair back, and said, "Now, you're just an un[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]. And yet you see it was strange because most of the, unlike the film industry all the makeup assistants were female and all the people who worked in wardrobe, the, the costume designers, the dressers, except they had male dressers, they were all woman.Mm.45Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 2 Side AThe,[…]

Jean Anderson

[…]tar should stop the train so Cybil Shepard  stopped the train so their parts were reduced to almost nothing. Now my part as the baddie was good, wardrobe went to town, I had terrifying purple lips extraordinary clothes and black veil and really looked like she was the baddie, and in the old fil[…]

June Randall

[…]The Huggetts, it was her dress.June Randall Page 51: Oh, that’s something anyway. Then you gave it back to her. Or kept it.I took it back to the wardrobe department. In those days Manny we didn’t have anymoney at all, none at all.1: No, well we weren’t paid all that much in those days.No, no. B[…]
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