Molly Weir

Forename/s: 
Molly
Family name: 
Weir
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Interview Number: 
457
Interview Date(s): 
21 Jul 1999
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behp0457-molly-weir-summary

[These are Manny Yospa’s notes, which are mostly names and references that are mentioned in the interview]

SIDE ONE

Born Glasgow; child artist; shorthand; Miss McKenzie; Co-operative. Father died when she was young, scholarship at 14. Shorthand, 300 words a minute [?]; first broadcast: Educating Archie; Jack Howes; Empire Exhibition; Carroll Levis; London; The McFlannels; Gordon Jackson. In war. Effie Morris, Helen Price; Aeolian Hall; ITMA [It’s That Man Again – radio comedy]; Tommy Handley; Ted Kavanagh; Tarty MacIntosh, Life with the Lyons. Tom Reynolds, Maggie, Rentaghost.

SIDE TWO

David Lean; Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Carry on Regardless; Ronald Neame; Helena Gloag; Maggie Smith; Celia Johnson; Scrooge; Albert Finney; The Lyons in Paris; Commercial; Russel Hunter; Hands of the Ripper; Equity; Appeals Committee; Flash [TV commercials]; Writing.

SIDE THREE

Writing; Flowers of the Forest [poem].

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Biographical

Married name = Mary Hamilton