Bryan Forbes

And he said, do you want to be in a movie? And I said, yes, I do.

And it was Brian Forbes who was doing the Stepford Wives.

Yeah,

wow.

Chaplin, a biopic of Charlie Chaplin.

It stars Robert Downey Jr., is directed by Richard Attenborough, and written by William Boyd, Brian Forbes, and William Goldman.

It was also nominated for three and won zero.

oh

ABC.

They bought ABC and they put Brian Forbes in charge of production at Elstree.

And so he actually, in 1970, he came up with some quite good commercial British films like The Railway Children and things like that, which did really well.

Man Who Haunted Himself.

And I think it was always assumed that I would follow in his steps.

Although the following year he did a film, a lesser known film, that was directed by Brian Forbes called The Whisperers.

And it starred the wonderful actress Dame Edith Evans.

And after my sports day at school, I was allowed to go and watch the filming.

Now jump forward two decades to the 1970s, and we hit the film ranked seventh, which chases a completely different kind of zeitgeist, the 1976 musical The Slipper and the Rose.

Directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven as a perfectly lovely but mostly unremarkable Cinderella, and Richard Chamberlain as a prince who was decidedly a bit too old for the role by 1976.

But the real hook of this movie was supposed to be the music.

It was written by the legendary Richard and Robert Sherman, the Sherman brothers.