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[…] Will Hay films were directed by an American di- rector, William Beaudine. A tall moustachioed fellow from Hollywo od who […]

[…] acts they used to come and stay at our hotel, it was absolutely hilarious. SC: Did any very famous people stay? UB: Oh Harry Tate, Bransby Williams, Eddie Gray, he used to stand outside in the summer. He’d put a paper down outside the main entrance and stand there touting for trade, if he[…]

[…]g’s died’. And I said, ‘What?’ and then I checked with whatever head office it was. But I got to know the Director-General, that lovely Sir William...JPH: Oh, William Haley.DS: He was lovely, I got to know him quite well.Were they expecting – I mean this is somewhat irrelevant&nb[…]

[…]ight. But the fact that he should have to do so I remember shocked me. The other thing they worked very closely on very fruitfully was was a composer William Walton, who may have been a personal friend of Olivier's anyway, stayed at his house when he was here. He lived in Rugby. And it was my busine[…]

[…]EAKER: F2Yes the broad for teens it was called as I recall.SPEAKER: M2And of course the American Army Film Unit was also there and I seem to remember William Wyler doing his Memphis Belle thing upstairs at Pinewood so there was a lot of very exciting things happening and Edward G Robinson was starri[…]

[…] family, he was a master founder, I've been able to find out and Newton supplied the capital. And they leased this piece of land from the Earl of Fitzwilliam, because they had found there were outcrops of iron stone and there was a water supply to drive the mills etc. And therefore they in this vall[…]

[…]'d say I'd like to do this instead of that or do it this way or that way. He started, the very [first] picture he did at Gainsborough was directed by William Beaudine, an American director, and he, Will Hay and Bill Beaudine tried to do a thing together and it didn't work out at all. And Bill didn't[…]

[…] it. ‘Hello Lady!’ CB: (laughs)I: And then you start off at Warner’s by the look of it.....with a Max Miller film called Get Off My Foot, directed by William Beaudine69, he was a lovely old director, comedy director, wasn’t he?CB: Oh, he was lovely, yes. He.... one of the very few people who – not o[…]