Finally found a copy of The Yellow Rolls Royce movie soundtrack (not that I was looking very hard for it tbh) The pics are of my mum and dad at the films premiere at The Electra Cinema, Newport Pagnell in 1965, and yes, that is Robert Maxwell flirting with mums hair-do!
Great photos!
Loved the film when I saw it on TV ages ago and eventually managed to get it on DVD.
After I posted this I read one of it’s stars Alain Delon had passed earlier in the day, spooky.
Hope Shirley MacLaine is ok, now 90.
Was there a reason for their invite to the premiere?
My dad stood as a local (Milton Keynes district) Liberal candidate and was there to meet RM at the film night. The pics were taken by the local paper and were published but they sent him these copies, which I now have. I had another run-in with RM (who was the Buckingham MP) a few years later. I lived on the 8th floor of a block of flats in Wolverton, Milton Keynes and there was nowhere to play outside. So I mentioned this to my dad one day how it would be great it would be if we could have a playpark and he suggested I get a petition up and have all the residents of the flats sign one. So my little sister and I knocked on every door and no-one said no (how could they?!) and we mailed the petition to our local MP and awaited a reply. It was mentioned in the local paper after this letter arrived.
Unfortunately for us, we had long moved out of the flats by the time a playpark was eventually built. It’s still there today with no commemorative plaque I might add, lol.
Thanks for that @Gardener it’s good to get the back story. Well done with the petition too,
Thanks for sharing those entertaining back pages from your early life, Gardener.
You did well with that petition.
I’d completely forgotten The Yellow Rolls Royce, That was an impressive all-star international cast.
A portmanteau film with three separate stories about the owners of the Roller.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711905/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Written by Terence Rattigan, the playwright who was the toast of the town until the arrival of kitchen sink dramas in the mid 50s.
The new generation really put the boot int:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711905/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm