Robert Stevenson: Walt had seen a show I did at Revue. I was asked to see Bill Anderson. I was reluctant, but the boss of Revue said that I had better go. Bill Anderson told me, “Why don’t you work here for a week? See if you like it and if we like you.”
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met Walt right from the start and always found him to be accessible. He never interfered with the director on the set. He always stood in the background. His view was there is nothing an outsider could do while the picture was filmed. He was close to writing and editing but not to shooting.
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