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Guy
Ritchie - loves the East End
The character-filled streets around Bethnal Green provided
locations for Guy Ritchie's smash hit film debut 'Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels'.
The film details a weekend in the life of a
group of friends, who get themselves into serious trouble
with gangster Harry 'the hatchet', over a card game debt of
£800,000.
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Hollywood Bigshots film in Whitechapel - 'Interview
with a Vampire' and 'Chaplin'.
Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater,
filmed 'Interview With a Vampire' on location at Wilton's
Music Hall in Whitechapel. Great set and clothes, and obviously
a great choice of location - unfortunately the film was not
well-recieved.
Wilton's Music Hall was also one of the locations
used in the controversial film biography of 'Chaplain' starring
George Downey JR and John Thaw.
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Babara Windsor
The lovely Babs Windsor, born in 1937, is now known to us
all for being the landlady of the Queen Vic in Eastenders.
In this case, (Guy Ritchie take note)
we are dealing with a true East-End gal. She was friends with
the Krays back in the fifties and sixties.
She spent her very early years in Shoreditch,
but her mother moved the family up to Hackney as soon as she
could. Babs attended Our Lady at Stamford Hill in Hackney
but got thrown out. She starred in 9 'Carry
On' films, and appeared in the 1963 film 'Sparrows Can't Sing'
on location in Limehouse. Apparently her mother spent a fortune
on elocution lessons to make her sound more upmarket, only
to end up playing the ultimate East-Ender, Peggy Mitchell.
She now lives in Marylebone.
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