[…]; Yes, we used to bunk in. And my mother, bless her heart, I didn’t realise this, she was mad keen on that German singer, what was his name, that sang - Richard Talbiese. She was mad keen on him and she could actually all the songs and she had got a beautifu[…]
[…]this was one I couldn't fault it. It was absolute perfection from start to finish. The girl's name, she was a lovely, lovely colored, colored artist. Singer was Dorothy Dandridge, who later went on to play the lead in Carmen Jones. And she was the solid artist, total magic. But I did a lot of shows.[…]
[…]ome time. I was a very impressionable guy. I mean I got on the BAFTA council and there's all these luminaries like you know - Attenborough and Aubrey Singer and very important people. I felt very, very humble and very, you know. But I was on the council there - it was a time when suddenly at this po[…]
[…]ernoon he had to judge a beauty competition beside the public swimming baths with a chap called David [Whitfield] something or other, who was a tenor singer who’d worked in a Hull Quarry. What was his name? David something or other. He sang a song called [sings] ‘Cara Mia why…’ and[…]
[…]t sometimes you get a big laugh, like in the Vagabond student in the review amusement only, there was a laugh in that where I was a silent the silent singer, and I used to, sort of, he asked me a question, and I said, and then began to develop it. And night after night, I added new bits, like choppi[…]
[…] the viewing figures were good for those. But actually the boss man immediately thought this is great and more to be done. And I managed to talk with singer into making a second programme with Max Morgan which. On on the side the best of selling were much better at that was fashioning the materials […]
[…]p;Give us thumbnail sketches of them both, first of all Lady Yule.Vernon Sewell: Lady Yule. Well, her daughter got mixed up - admired a Canadian singer and she bought the rights of the thing and Hans May wrote a scenario and she booked the Palace Theatre for one year and gave the actors a contr[…]
JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]
[…]n which the audience actually sees it. Huge predictions of these things happening behind the players that the players and I say the players maybe the singer, the dancer, the instrumentalists themselves actually performing to the audience in front of the things are complimentary.Unknown Speaker […]
[…]he records were important, there were Decca and HMV. But that was the important thing, and through them, through that company, I met a girl who was a singer called Jean English, who was married to a guy who worked for Rank under Theo Cowan... their publicity department provided escorts for these you[…]
