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The
'Liverpool' club: Davenport Hotel, Merrion
Square, Dublin
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THE
NANNY filming locations
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CREDITS
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Bette Davis,
in her post-Baby
Jane phase, is the murderous nanny in this Hammer
psycho-shocker.
The posh London house, where she acts as a scary Mary
Poppins to the kids, is on Chester
Terrace alongside Regentís Park, London
NW1.
the elegant and exclusive Nash terraces have proved
irresistible to film-makers. Among the other screen
characters who live here are: rich girl Fenella (Hayley
Mills) in the dated Agatha Christie mystery Endless
Night and Deborah
Kerr in the 1955 adaptation of Graham Greeneís novel
The End of the Affair.
Gertrude Lawrence (Julie
Andrews) faces bankruptcy here in Star!
(Robert Wiseís
ill-fated attempt to recapture the magic of The
Sound of Music) and blackmailer Dennis
Price calls on a victim at the opening of The
Naked Truth.
The SS marches though the terraceís gate in Kevin Brownlow
and Andrew Mollo's chilling 'documentary' of life in
Britain under Nazi rule, It
Happened Here. The
Ministryís ëmobile HQí (a double-decker London bus)
trundles past the terraces in The
Avengers – and
watch Robert
Redford driving to the CIA HQ in Tony
Scottís Spy Game.
Youíll recognise the terraces masquerading as Washington
DC.
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The
'psychiatric hospital': University of hertfordshire,
Aldenham
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You can see the clinic, where one of her little charges
is sent for psychiatric assessment, up in Hertfordshire.
It is in fact Wall Hall College, now the University
of Hertfordshire, north of Aldenham,
between Watford and Radlett, which was also used as
the childrenís hospital in the 1957 Anna
Neagle tearjerker No Time
For Tears, as well as
the mansion of Roger Morton (George
Cole) in Roy
Ward Baker's 1970 The Vampire
Lovers (the film of
J Sheridan Le Fanu's novel Carmilla).
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE
NANNY
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ASSOCIATED
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Chester
Terrace is a favourite location, seen in Spy
Game, The End of the
Affair (1955), The Naked
Truth, Star!
and It Happened Here.
The University of Hertfordshire
is also seen in No Time For tears
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