Billy Williams - Coral Browne: A very elegant lady (132/172)

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Born in London in 1929, cinematographer Billy Williams shot more than 40 high profile films throughout his career, being nominated for an Oscar for ‘On Golden Pond’ and ‘Women in Love’, then winning the Oscar for ‘Gandhi’ in 1983. He received an OBE in 2009. [Listener: Neil Binney]
TRANSCRIPT: The cast were marvellous; Ian Holm played Lewis Carroll and Coral Browne played the old lady. Well, Coral is a very elegant lady who was in her early seventies and for the part she had to be 80. Well, if you'd met Coral Browne in the street, you'd have sworn she wasn't more than 50, she was so beautiful, and beautifully turned out, very elegant lady. Charming, lovely lady to work with full of fun, always good for a laugh. She hated going into makeup; she'd have to go into make up for a couple of hours and come out as the old lady and of course, I had to light it to make her look older, so it was... it was a really interesting picture to do, to be going back and forth between these two periods, and we had all these wonderful puppets.

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coral is divine...