Selected Originals - Royal Film Performance (1969)

Selected Originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story ROYAL FILM PERFORMANCE - 69/18. Newsreel title reads ’NEWS IN COLOUR’ (this is B/W print). Exterior shots of Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, London, with billboard outside advertising Royal Command film ’The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’. Shots of actress Maggie Smith and her actor husband Robert Stephens chatting to someone in the line-up. Scottish piper band march past the outside of the cinema. Actor Roger Moore arrives with a glamorous woman - could be his wife, Luisa. Actor Rex Harrison arrives with actress wife Rachel Roberts (looking quite glam in a feather boa). A few unrecognised arrivals. Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon arrive, then Princess Alexandra. Shots of the royals meeting people in the line-up. Queen Mother chats to actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Peter Sellers, then to Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith. Some extra shots not found in cut story. Some shots are quite dark. FILM ID