Contact print showing actor stand-ins for the film 'The Prince and the Showgirl'

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1956-07-15 in London
maker:
F Greaves
Photographic contact print by F Photographic contact print by F

Photographic contact print by F
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group/SSPL
© Mirrorpix

Photographic contact print by F
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group/SSPL
© Mirrorpix

Photographic contact print by F. Greaves titled 'Filming in the Horse Guards'. Caption on back reads: 'The first shots of the Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier film The Seeping Princess [released as The Prince and the Showgirl] were done this morning on the Horse Guards Parade and the forecourt of the Foreign Office. Film extras in costumes of the last century caused great interest for the visitors to London. O.P.S. "Stand-ins" for stars int he film walk across Horse Guards Parade. L-R Richard Gregory (Esmond Knight), Betty Goody (Margot Lister), Ann Roderick (Sybil Thorndyke), and Bill Morgan (Aubry Dexter)'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/30065
Materials:
ink and paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 100 mm x 151 mm
type:
photograph
credit:
Daily Herald Archive at National Science and Media Museum