1960-1969 Actor - Actress

1967 - Filming The Flash Bang Wallop Scene For Half A Sixpence': Tommy Steel, the cockney with all the cheek of the East End, kicked up all when he'ard that one of the best songs in Half a Sixpence was being dropped from the film version of the show. Flash Bang Wallop was a show-stopper in the West End four years ago. But Paramount, who are making the film, said it wasn't such a hit on Broadway and it would cost too much to shoot. Then Tommy, star of the stage show and the film launched his campaign. I told these Hollywood tycoons they'd never get out of England alive if they dropped it. he said. They'd have to get their tin hats on otherwise the public would lynch them at the airport, I said. George Sidney, who is directing the film, backed Tommy, and with shooting almost finished, Paramount changed their minds. Flash Bang Wallop will be in the film although the scene is costing Paramount150, 000 - for shooting time, extras, a studio-built Victorian pub, rehearsals, orchestration. And yesterday, at Elstree studios, the pub - the Folkestone Hope and Anchor of H.G. Walls novel Kipps on which Half a Sixpence is based, was crowded with extras and genuineold time musical hall characters. In the middle of the crown - Tommy Steele, the man who saved the song, playing Kipps, and Julia Foster, who plays his bride. Photo shows The Flash Bang Wallop scene in Half a Sixpence with Tommy Steele and Julia Foster - at Elstree yesterday

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