Quick Change Artist 1967

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Covent Garden, London.

L/S of a Rolls Royce arriving at Ricky Renee's cabaret club (it passes the Fortune Theatre) in daylight. A glamorous blonde in a fur stole gets out of the car; this turns out to really be cabaret star Ricky Renee in drag. We see him in various other disguises as the doorman,...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4213
Sort Number:
CP 644
Time in/Out:
01:51:39:00 / 01:54:18:00
Canister:
CP 644
Film ID:
403.10
Issue Date:
20/04/1967

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