[…]ghs]. And I went in for competitions non-stop and won them all. Eventually there was a competition at the Royal Albert Hall, December 15th, 1926, the World Charleston Championship. I went in for it, I won it and my prize was four weeks' engagement starting at Christmas that year, like two weeks afte[…]
[…]od to work with? He knew his stuff? You tell me.No, he did know his stuff. Yes, he knows his stuff, as you know, he’s one of the bestdirectors in the world. And after that I did a film called, well I suppose I did so many.Flash Gordon. I mean I can’t... I did a film with Bette Davis which was v[…]
[…] approaching a slum in the back waters of Notting Hill, and it was apparently I was a kid with my parents. It was a hard struggle, and when the first world war came, my father, who had not been naturalized, was given the option of either becoming a naturalized British subject and serving in the army[…]
[…] who were all at Denham. But in my capacity one did not mix with them like one would now. You didn't speak unless spoken to. It was quite a different world.KGY: Would you say at this stage of your career you learned from themCC: A lot. Perhaps not at that very early stage. But when I was in a positi[…]
[…]ure that you've got the message interesting, and make it the right balance to say nothing of the fact that POF had a legion of followers all over the world.Unknown Speaker  21:50  And you don't want them to turn away from it thinking that it's it's a hatchet job or anything like that. Anyh[…]
[…]This is an interview with John Cotter recorded by Rodney Giesler on 5 July 1997 in ChargeSomerset. Copyright in this recording is vested in the Becta World History Project.C) John can you tell me a bit about when you were born and about your family background?A Yes, certainly, I was born in Blackhea[…]
[…]young nun who is about to be received into the Church and she hears, she's left alone to pray all night, and she hears during her prayers the outside world calling her. So she goes into a frenzied-like dance, and goes up to the Madonna, which was Diana Manners, pulls the baby Jesus away from the Mad[…]
[…]ind. And sometimes I think we've I had a famous row with at the very end of Monitor because Huw put on film that Ken Russell had done about the Dotty world of Mr. Lloyd who was an amateur painter, and commercially a very great success. And I thought I should put on the film I've done on Joe Tilson, […]
[…]e best job we could get to have but from training. I suppose the greatest thing about my shell experience was that Burt hamster. Was making the rival world at that time. My greatest disappointment that I wasn't the assistant because at Shell of course the assistant director. Did virtually everything[…]
