Trottie True

Date: 1949
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Production Company: Two Cities Films

Stars: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Michael Medwin, Hattie Jacques, and spot em in you can extras Roger Moore, Ian Carmichael and Patrick Cargill
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, London

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Music hall star falls in love with a lord and fancies a balloonist and, er, that’s about it though it is sumptuously colourful in a feel-good post war effort. SJ

Additional Information:

Originally loaded as a “quota quickie” on 19/12/2011 and given a reboot three years later.

Also known as ‘The Gay Lady’ (US Title).

Jimmy Snow, special effects technician, for whom we have a fulsome summary of his career written by his granddaughter Brigitte, together with her memories of him, worked on this film. All that she has shared with us can be read here.

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Debenham House on Addison Road W14. which also appears in 'The Man with 2 Heads' and 'Secret Ceremony'.

A perfect angle.

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Addison Road W14.

Looking from Debenham House. SJ

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Gloucester Crescent NW1. Know it well as I "studented" it here in '82.

Top of houses a giveaway. Looking east. SJ

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A dark shot but nonetheless ... Lightened by JT.

Same place, Inverness Street NW1. SJ

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The corner of Gloucester Crescent and Inverness Street NW1.

Now. SJ

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Gloucester Crescent, which was seen 66 years later in 'The Lady in the Van'.

Looking northwest. SJ

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And another shot.

Different postbox and I think it's been moved to the other side of the lamppost. SJ

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This is going to be tricky to find.

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  • 24 Mar 2015

A theatre but I don't think it's the Bedford on Camden High Street, often cited and demolished in 1969. JT and I agree this is the Gaiety on the west side of Aldwych, demolished in 1956.

Peter advises that "The columns to the left in screen shot belong to the Aldwych Theatre hidden behind the tree in the background" and this is the same location now.

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I think this is elsewhere on the site ... hang on more than a min, I'll get there! OK, we have waited long enough, this is Stowe House, Stowe in Buckinghamshire. (RL)

Antony Blair capture this view of the property which dates from 1677.

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A close-up with Kent on the steps of Stowe House. (RL)

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Not too difficult this one. Albert Memorial in W2 which appears in ‘The Shakedown’, ‘Jubilee’, ‘It Happened Here’, 'Inadmissible Evidence', ‘The Million Pound Note’, ‘Recoil’, 'Joanna', ‘Up Jumped a Swagman’, ‘The Jokers’, ’23 Paces to Baker Street’, ‘Radio Cab Murder’, ‘The Assassination Bureau Limited’, ’30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia’ and many others.

Shame about the hoarding. SJ

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A very familiar and popular location. The Italian Gardens opposite the Lancaster Hotel W2, which also feature in 'The Big Sleep', 'Follow Me!', 'The Astonished Heart', 'Two Gentlemen Sharing;', 'Touch and Go', 'Yield to the Night' and 'Three Hats for Lisa'.

See London Movie Guide for numerous other films shot here. SJ