Veteran film director Herbert Wilcox has launch party for his book at Elstree Studios.
No title. ABPC give party to launch Herbert Wilcox's book at Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire.
C/U veteran film director / producer Wilcox and film actress Anna Neagle looking at Herbert's book "25,000 Sunsets". C/U Wilcox. L/S studio lights. Top shot of guests at launch party. M/S Herbert and Anna chatting with war heroine Odette Churchill and Robert Clark (executive of ABPC). C/U some of the guests. M/S Anna greets actress Sybil Thorndike. Panning C/U Dame Sybil, Anna and Herbert. C/U Commander Kerans and Odette. M/S Anna embracing and kissing actress Thora Hird. M/S Tony Keys with film actress Winifred Shotter. Zoom in to C/U still of Winifred on film set with Ralph Lynn in film "Rookery Nook", pan out to Winifred looking at still. C/U still of Anna Neagle in early film. C/U still of Anna in another film. C/U still of Anna dressed as Queen Victoria in "60 Glorious Years". C/U Herbert, pan to C/U still from his first film "Madame Pompadour". C/U Dame Sybil raising her champagne glass in a toast.
ABPC = Associated British Picture Corporation.
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"Odette Churchill" - actually she'd divorced Peter Churchill 11 years earlier, and was known by this time as Odette Hallowes.
"Commander Kerans" is John Kerans.