[…]t have been hundreds of famous stars spoke through that microphone, including Allan Jones[?]. And I tell you who I was friendly with, was the 'street singer', Arthur Tracy - had about a half-hour chat with him one night! And he married a girl, locally, when he came to Coventry from America. And I sa[…]
[…]s so fast, that people can go through this. [Erm], it’s like learning to be a film maker on ‘Tonight’ which brought up Kevin Billington and John Schlesinger and Jack Gold for instance. It was the same kind of setup. I mean, you could equate, in a sense, the ‘Tonight’ with the ‘The Late S[…]
[…]d trained at the Erbic? school and was a theatre designer and with his wife, and knew the art scene very well. And she also had standing by John Schlesinger, who had as a possible director, I think John was standing by from her. For her, he'd come from Tonight.He had been in Tonight and had done the[…]
[…] Taylor and Carol White and Jimmy Booth. Those were the three parts cast, all the rest I had to cast. It was about an agent who's looking after a pop singer, a sort of Tom Jones type character I suppose really. But the agent, played by Rod Taylor, is in his mid forties, in his midlife crisis and is […]
[…]d a few of those with Jim McTaggart and also Wednesday plays with him and all these things so.21 Millicent Martin (1934-) is an English actress, singer and comedian her credits include Alfie (1966) as well as roles in television programmes including Frasier more recently.22&[…]
[…], now that was um... a muddle, in many ways! [Chuckles.] We had some quite glamorous clothes for a girl called Madeleine Lebeau, who was a night-club singer. Oh, 'The Magnet' was nothing, 'Pool of London' nothing, 'Lavender Hill' - Audrey Hepburn - first time I did her clothes. 'Man in the White Sui[…]
[…]died: a beautiful nightclub. And Mocambo, and Ciro's. And these were all wonderful nightclubs, beautiful nightclubs. At Mocambo you'd get all the top singers in the world coming and performing there, and things like that. It was so lovely there: beautiful dancebands - it always had beautiful danceba[…]
