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1947 SHOWBIZ / ROYAL: Royalty and film stars at the Second Royal Command Film Show
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3:48Now PlayingDate: 1st December 1947
Location: Leicester Square, UK
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: The Royal Command film performance
ENGLAND: London: Leicester Square:
Various celebrities arriving at theatre
Loretta Young (Actress) arriving wearing white, scarlet and black gown
Ann Todd (Actress) arriving
Vivien Leigh (Actress), Sir Laurence Olivier (Actor), Stewart Granger (Actor) and John Mills (Actor) arriving
Margaret Lockwood (Actress) arriving in extravagant gown
Googie Withers (Actress) arriving with her fiance British actor John McCallum
Greta Gynt (Norwegian singer, dancer and actress) arrives in silver satin gown
Sally Gray (Actress) and Eric Portman (Actor) arriving
John Woolf (Film producer and director) arrives with actress wife Edana Romney
Royal party arrives including King George VI with Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) and Princess Margaret
Queen receives bouquet of flowers from young girl Susan Price (daughter of actor Dennis Price)
Princess Margaret receives red roses from actor John Howard Davies in character as Oliver Twist
Royal party enters theatre
Film stars presented to royal party after show including in order of appearance: Phyllis Calvert, Vivien Leigh, Patricia Roc, Ann Todd, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson, Loretta Young, Bob Hope and Robert Montgomery
Royal party leaves theatre and film stars relax and congregate
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