Ingrid Bergman filming Chinese scene at Elstree
May 05, 1958 - Elstree goes Chinese for the Ingrid Bergman film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness': Elstree has gone native - at a cost of £90, 000. Beyond the Barnet bypass the twirly tops of pagodas are peeping over the rows of semi-detached houses. Authentic to the last sack of rice, Elstree has become a mud-and-plaster copy of the ancient walled Chinese city of Wangcheng. It's all for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness the Ingrid Bergman film being made for 20th Century Fox, and it's all to cut the cost of going to Formosa, as was originally planned. Yesterday Miss Bergman dressed up Chinese fashion, rode through the dirt-deep shanty-town streets on a mule. The set, the largest built outside Hollywood, covers 500, 000 square feet. Photo shows Miss Bergman riding through the dusty shanty-town on a mule during the filming at Elstree yesterday
