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A night ‘close to heaven’

Memories: Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, pictured during their heydey filming The Avengers, were among the Elstree Studios stars who attended the charity show

12:58pm Friday 5th February 2010

PAUL WELSH finds no comparison between Big Brother housemates and stars of yesteryear.

What becomes of the Dirty Dozen?

n Fight club: Samson Posey, played by Clint Walker, attacks his trainer Major Reisman, played by Lee Marvin, in the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen

9:34am Friday 22nd January 2010

PAUL WELSH comes across an MGM classic and remembers when Studio Way resembled a battleground.

Tribute to a gentlemen and officer

10:31am Monday 14th December 2009

PAUL WELSH devotes his column to the actor Richard Todd, star of the iconic film The Dam Busters.

Remembering the good old days

Looking sharp: Peter Sellers, pictured in Revenge of the Pink Panther in 1978, and his brother Richard sought the heights of fame

12:11pm Friday 27th November 2009

PAUL WELSH goes back a decade to remember a week of pomp and ceremony and an accidental meeting with Tom Cruise in a dark corridor.

Dermot is well-suited

Host who can boast: X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary appeared without his trousers when dressed as Luke Skywalker in a Star Wars documentary

10:24am Friday 13th November 2009

PAUL WELSH speculates about X Factor creators pulling strings and reveals how it’s not the first time things have gone Si’s Way.

The man behind The Saint

Roger Moore and Joyce Blair in The Saint television series, filmed at Elstree Studios

12:01pm Friday 16th October 2009

Veteran producer Bob Baker believed The Saint would work perfectly on television, writes PAUL WELSH.

Actors did not always act together

Unhappy pairing: the late comedy actor Charlie Drake, pictured above left on the set of Sands of the Desert

10:26am Friday 9th October 2009

It is not just current actors who put on diva-like performances, writes PAUL WELSH.

Look out for unknown extras

Real-life love affair: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, pictured above right in Cleopatra, filmed in 1963, in which he starred with Elizabeth, acted in several films together but did not live happily every after

12:08pm Friday 2nd October 2009

It is not only in recent times that film production companies employ stellar casts to pull in viewers, writes PAUL WELSH.

Who says times are tough?

11:41am Friday 25th September 2009

While he prepares for the Elstree Screen Heritage quiz night, PAUL WELSH looks on with envy as Simon Cowell’s 50th birthday bash draws near.

A star-studded summer

n Hats off: Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman starred in Stage Fright by Alfred Hitchcock, filmed in Elstree 60 years ago

1:04pm Friday 11th September 2009

PAUL WELSH remembers the stars of Hitchcock’s film Stage Fright, reveals the romance on set and spots the extras who went onto greater fame.






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