Curtain Up
Date: 1952
Director: Ralph Smart
Production Company: Constellation Films, The Rank Organisation
Stars: Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Kendall, Michael Medwin, Olive Sloane, Liam Gaffney, Lloyd Lamble
Location(s): Surrey, Yorkshire
Region(s): North, South East A-D
Storyline:
A second-rate repertory company assemble to rehearse the following week’s ghastly melodrama.
Additional Information:
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- Capture 1
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The film opens with a panoramic view of fictional Drossmouth. Tom Plaister explains that "This is a view of north-west Sheffield taken from the steelworks tip that has now been redeveloped as Parkwood Business Park on Parkwood Road S3. In the right foreground is Parkwood Karting with Club Mill Road to the bottom of the capture, next to the River Don flowing away from the since demolished Neepsend power station."
- Capture 2
- 'Now' required
The shot pans to bring more of the dreary provincial town into view. Tom Plaister knows the area well and tells us "The River Don lies to the centre with the now demolished Anlaby, Bough, Cottam and Driffield Streets that join Peniston Road to the left. In the background is a steelworks which I believe was Daniel Doncasters & Sons Ltd and in the distance, hidden by the smoke and smog, is Owlerton Stadium and the Sheffield Wednesday football ground."
- Capture 3
- 15 May 2022
The scene moves to the centre of town, where the Theatre Royal stands. The image is dominated by the since extended Onslow Hall next to Richmond Theatre on Little Green in Richmond, Surrey.
With the fill-in extension. SJ
- Capture 4
- 15 May 2022
A Bill Poster arrives outside the theatre to update the playbills. The front of Richmond Theatre in Richmond, which was moved from Surrey into Greater London in 1965.
The lampshade has changed recently. SJ
- Capture 5
- 15 May 2022
Having done his work, the Bill Poster glances at a billboard before moving on. Richmond Theatre on Little Green. The theatre was seen in 'The Krays', 'Dance Little Lady', 'The Comedy Man', 'Half a Sixpence' and 'The Naked Truth'.
The canopy has gone. SJ
- Capture 6
- 15 May 2022
Inside the theatre, the town's second-rate repertory company assemble to rehearse the following week's play.
Facing west. SJ