Teresa Wright should also have won the Oscar for The Best Years of Our Lives, in which she gives her best performance - she wasn't even nominated. Also won for Greer Garson, Film, Screenplay (Arthur Wimperis, James Hilton, George Froeschel, Claudine West - the same team who did the same year's Random Harvest), Photography Joe Ruttenberg. Harold Kress edited, music Herbert Stothart.
Churchill said its propaganda value was worth several battleships. Certainly the bombed out house and church, both with the sky visible, are potent symbols.
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| Greer Garson sporting the fashionable spaghetti look |
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| Teresa Wright mopping the floor with Richard Ney |
The true story on which A Royal Night Out is based is of course much more mundane than the one presented by writers Trevor de Silva and Kevin Hood. Elizabeth and Margaret were 19 and 14, for one thing. And here they are:
They were accompanied by a household staff of sixteen and of course did not experience the film's hi-jinks, though did conga in the Ritz. The film isn't the best in the world though does have a good last third, and as that's where Roger Allam appears it is perhaps no coincidence.
I remember talking to a lady dog walking - she had been allowed to go into London as a young lady to experience the jubilations. She got off the train and about the first thing she saw was a couple bonking in an alleyway!
Still, does capture the exuberant chaos of that night when the lights were finally turned back on.
I'm sure if Her Maj had watched it she would have thought it was bollocks.
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