Anne V Coates

[…]on movies. So, I was able to stay. I mean as soon as I was there, people started offering me jobs there, and I never came back, I never came back for two years. Y es. In the meantime, Douglas, who I was by then divorced from but we were always good friends, said to me, ‘You must do up the hous[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]. I always used to think as a child “Well that’s not very good coming fifth, if you come first in England. ...”However, when you realise that perhaps two thousand young accountants take that exam I suppose to come fifth was quite good. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wyl[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]hich was in existence, even in those days. And it was sold out right for 70 pounds. My father photographed it directed it, and with the aid of one or two colleagues built the sets. And that was really the beginning. Roy Fowler  6:49  Do he sell all the rights in it? Ron[…]

Val Guest

[…]mber doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly with two fingers learnt to type and typed out odd stories.RF: So writing was an early motivation.VG: Yes.RF: Was also acting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] fact in 1996, if my mathematics are correct, Mick would have been 105. He had he was the, with his sister Nettie, he was the youngest of five he had two other brothers and an older sister. His two older brothers, Chan, of course, who was a regular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…] class. But she was a wonderful pianist; she changed to light music and jazz and was very successful with that. Before the war she had her own trio – two pianos and a singer – and they played at the Berkeley and the Savoy in London, all over the place. And that’s really how she earned her living; sh[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]r I left drama school, Jimmy Logan was a great friend of mine because the Logan family, there was another one they had number one theatres and number two theatres even in Glasgow and the Metropole was a theatre in the Gorbals, and that was twice weekly and the Logan family was there then, there was […]

Bernard Gribble

[…]the studio and then I suppose about ten and introduced Mr. at mass Miss Adelaide Pentecost who ran the film library or indeed I had a job but I think two pounds five a week or something like that is actually two pounds a week plus ten and six more bonus.SPEAKER: M4That was it because I remember I st[…]

Richard Marden

[…] to a must have I can't remember how old I would have been. Any have been about five? I think I would I was doing seeing it, I don't know. But it had two images, one, a close up of a bell on a sprung Bell, who knows, like servants  Bell, which started to ring , for no reason was the ability, pr[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…]1 of us went on a daylight raid. Thought is a good idea by ministry because the the sorry, the Americans were doing it successfully and out of the 11 two got back. My wing commander was one armed with the other one. And, again, most of the crew dead This time I had a year in hospital. And it came ou[…]
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