San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...

JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh, find that photo! Who was the photographer then? Was it
Pamela? Because they wanted to take a group photo, and he said, “Great, let’s do it in the
doorway.” So everybody was standing in the doorway, and he decided to lie down. He lay down
in the entryway of Tosca.
MIGUEL PENDÁS: Like a corpse in one of his horror movies?
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yeah, with one hand on his head.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: I remember him being here, but I hadn’t started yet. Okay, I think
I’ve completely screwed this up.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: He was married to that woman Coral Browne, and she was here.
We had that movie, with Coral Browne, An Englishman Abroad, and she was in that. We had
that film. That was with Alan Bates.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: You know what, I think I had maybe just started. I remember now.
He was lovely.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh, he was darling. He was nothing like—
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: Coral. I had started. I’m so sorry, but it’s harder when you get older
to remember. That’s what happened. I must have started. I remember the Opening Night film,
Camilla.
MIGUEL PENDÁS: In 1985.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: In ’85, but I wasn’t so entrenched in the films.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: See, that’s just like not remembering when I was on the board,
because it felt like I was already on the board.
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