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[…]on. We had some very strange characters, some of which disappeared, there was an assistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known as Betty poor chap, and there was Chan Balcon, who wasrepresenting Gai[…]

[…]they paid me very low and I didn't have much money and I stayed with, Fergus MacDonald had a brother called Gordonp. 10MacDonald who was a well known writer, he wrote a successful novel of the time called Jump for Glory which afterwards was made into a film. I stayed at Santa Monica, I had a room in[…]

[…] in his own right. He also had Nicky Brucewho was son of the ballet dancer Karsavina who was married to BruceLockhart [Henry James Bruce?] the famous writer and diplomat. All thesepeople were on this David Lean film, which was quite a big film. I was againjoining, they were all my duties up to that […]

[…]ing. He worked on a film on which I was associate producer, 'Scott of the Antartic'. He managed to get a script out of a mass of material which other writers like H. E. Bates had tried to do and had failed. He was a great man. He founded the Film Society which in those days was the only way you coul[…]