Erwin Hillier

[…] been the leading country in the world. It's the language. We beat them. And therefore all the great talents like lubrigs and so on, all emigrated to Hollywood because they knew there was a greater chance to expand. But Ufa, in those days, had some enormous talents, very exciting, I think, perhaps t[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]ks into blackand white, which ruined all my lovely forties costumes. At least they weren’t shown incolour anyway.Did you find it different working in Hollywood compared to an English set-up?[09:50]Phyllis Dalton Page 48I found it easier actually.Really?In some ways. I think I was terribly lucky[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]ave known, but Inever did because he was responsible for the budget, that was his main responsibility.Roy Fowler: I was thinking in relationship with Hollywood, given the dollar 4 to thepound in those days, that would be $300,000 dollars which was quite an adequate averagefor a programme picture.Mau[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…] they had a film course on art direction and photography and the Lou physique was the head of the photography department and he was a professional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director.[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]Bebe Daniels. One was called The Song You Gave Me, where I think her leading man was a Hungarian actor called Victor Varconi who subsequently went to Hollywood. A lot of the Hungarian department did. And then there was Southern Maid which was also...that was originally I think going to be for Jose C[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]mean he just became very difficult and very awkward and I just don't work that way. Now you worked you worked in the American world but never in Hollywood. No. Why just a bit because of being you know you think it's interesting. You may recall right in the early days American cameramen in the d[…]

Julie Harris

[…]ilms like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was probably one of her last films. Joan Ellacott eventually went to the BBC and Phyllis Dalton, who has two Oscars, did Doctor Zhivago and most recently, Henry V. So we all went away and did our own thing.RL: Fantastic. What was Gainsborough like; because it[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…] that line up. Like Les Reed, people have been very good songwriters since and done a lot of good things. And anyway, John Barry of course, who is in Hollywood now and is a very established Hollywood music writer and orchestrator for big movies, Born Free and the Bond things he started the[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…]o make cobwebs. The prop man used to go and get cobwebs on the end of a stick and try and hook them on. But Laurence suddenly said to me, "Vernon, in Hollywood they make these cobwebs, but they lock the stage when it's done and nobody's allowed to go in. But I'll give you a clue, there's a very stro[…]
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