77 Park Lane [Unseen]

Au unseen film. It was reported in the Kinematograph Weekly, 29 January, that ‘Earlier in the day the Sabbath dawn [25 January] of Shepherd’s Market, that quaint byway of Mayfair, was invaded by Albert de Courville. Dennis Neilson-Terry and Betty Stockfield [sic] took part in a number of scenes from this famous Players Guild production….which is now practically complete. ‘The Birmingham Daily Gazette added, 9 February 1931, that ‘Piccadilly itself is to be filmed at night for a scene from “77 Park Lane.” The cameras are to be concentrated, I am told, between the Ritz and the Berkeley. Film gate-crashers now have their chances.’ The Bioscope noted, 18 February, that ‘Real London “cabbies” took to the movies in the early hours the other morning when the Famous Players Guild erected their arc lamps in the middle of Piccadilly and “commandeered” an entire taxi rank for exteriors for “77 Park Lane.”‘ The piece continued that ‘Conspicuous amongst the cabbies, street cleaners, policemen and London’s night crowd, which collects from nowhere, were Betty Stockfield [sic] and Malcolm Keen, both in evening dress, the chief characters in the this dirty piece of work.’