Work In Britain

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Work In Britain

IF plans she lias in mind materialise, Mary Pickford may enter British films as a producer. This was disclosed when Miss Pickford and her husband, Buddy Rogers, spent half an hour on the set of "An Englishman's Home" at Denham studios.

In a conversation with Mr. Neville E. Neville, producer of the film, Miss Pickford declared that for some time she had been interested in the idea of becoming a producer in England. She would like, she said, to make a British talkie version of "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall," which was one of her own biggest silent film successes.

"When I reminded Miss*Pickford that I was responsible for the selling of that picture in this country," says Mr. Neville, "she asked me if I thought it would stand remaking.

"I told her I considered the idea an excellent one.

" 'Then I'm going to see what I can do about it,' she replied."

After watching Albert de Courville direct a scene, Mies Pickford and Mr. Rogers met the members of the cast— Edmund Gwenn, Richard Ainley, Geoffrey Toone, Paul von Hernried and Desmond Tester.

Hies I'ickford was deeply impressed by the set she saw —an interior representing the home of an English family. The set was designed by Wilfred Arnold.