My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

His surname was legally changed to Moody in 1930. Moody then 80 but still spry and Jack Wild (seriously ill with oral cancer at the time) recreated their dance from the closing credits of the film. He acted again with former Oliver! co-star Jack Wild in Flight of the Doves.