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Aunt
Augusta's West End digs: the Salisbury,
St Martin's Lane
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TRAVELS
WITH MY AUNT filming locations
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CREDITS
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A
Graham Greene novel, veteran George
Cukor directing, Katharine
Hepburn starring... It looked pretty enticing.
Then Hepburn
dropped out of the cast (or was fired) and Maggie
Smith came on board, with a performance so extravagantly
OTT, itís best appreciated from an adjacent cinema.
Or possibly a neighbouring city.
She plays the ëliberatingí Aunt Augusta who opens up
new horizons for dry old stick Henry Pulling (Alec
McCowen).
In London,
the determinedly bohemian Augustaís West End base is
above The Salisbury, 90 St
Martinís Lane (tel: 020.7836.5863), at the
time one of Londonís most famously theatrical gay bars,
featured in Basil
Dearden's groundbreaking Victim,
1960.
The money pick-up is not far away, at the Lamb
and Flag, 33 Rose Street, a tiny alleyway
off Garrick Street, Covent Garden. Built in 1623, itís
the oldest pub in Covent Garden, and a colourful past
is reflected in its old name, The Bucket of Blood.
The grandiose 'St James and Albany Hotel' is Parisí
lavish Four Seasons George
V Hotel, 31 avenue George V (& 01.49.52.70.00;
www.fourseasons.com/paris), off the Champs ElysÈes.
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Aunt
Augusta's flashbacks: Le Train Bleu, Gare de
Lyon, Paris
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The fabulous fin-de-siËcle restaurant, where Augusta
begins to get flashbacks to her youth, is Le
Train Bleu, on the first floor of the Gare
de Lyon, Paris (see it also in Luc
Bessonís stylish Nikita).
The globetrotting travels also filmed in Italy,
Morocco,
Spain,
Turkey
and Yugoslavia.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
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CHECK
OUT
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Indulge
yourself at Le
Train Bleu, on the first floor of the Gare de
Lyon (tel: 01.43.43.09.06), Paris
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ASSOCIATED
FILMS |
See the
extravagant interior of Le
Train Bleu
again in Luc Besson's
Nikita (aka La
Femme Nikita) – remade in Hollywood as Assassin,
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