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Some of the most notable 'screenings' of Cheltenham and the surrounding area:

These Foolish Things (October 2004)

Writer and director, Julia Taylor-Stanley and producer Paul Sarony brought this newly written film to Cheltenham. Set in the 1940s, the film is a love story based around a traditional theatre and tells the story of an actresses' rise to fame.

Starred: Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Houston, Terence Stamp, Tony Britton, Roy Dotrice, Joss Ackland, Julia MacKenzie, Mamie Glover, Zoe Tapper, Andrew Lincoln, David Lincoln, Mark Umbers and Eve Miles.

Location: Montpellier Spa Road, Trafalgar Street, Pittville Pump Room, Hotel Kandinsky (all in Cheltenham). Also East Street and the Olde Black Bear pub in Tewkesbury, Olympus Theatre in Barton Street, Gloucester and areas of Bristol.

The Libertine (August 2004)

Set in the 1670s, Johnny Depp plays a debauched 17th century poet, the womanising Earl of Rochester.

Starred: Johnny Depp

Location: Stanway House, near Winchcombe.

Vanity Fair ( May 2004)

This sumptuous production is the latest film version of the classic novel Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray. It tells the tale of Becky Sharp, who is born into the lower classes. She rises through the echelons of London society in the 1820's with the help of her wit, guile and sexuality.

Starred: Reese Witherspoon, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Eileen Atkins and Geraldine McEwan

Location: Stanway House near Winchcombe, Bath and surrounding area.

Harry Potter and Philospher's Stone (November 2001)

Harry and his friends experience many exciting and dangerous adventures in this first Harry Potter film, based on the book by Gloucestershire born J.K. Rowling.

Starred: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Grainger), Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Zoe Wannamaker and Rik Mayall.

Location: Gloucester Cathedral

The Wyvern Mysteries (1999)

Based on a by 19th Century writer JS Le Fanu, about a young girl brought up by the man responsible for her fathers death. She falls in love with his eldest son.

Starred: Derek Jacobi, Jack Davenport

Location: Northleach, Stanway House, Guiting Power

Forgotten (1999)

TV adaptation of a modern English village psychological thriller about a woman's obsession in finding the man who killed her child 20 years earlier.

Starred: Amanda Burton, Paul McGann, Christopher Villiers, Gwyneth Strong

Location: Cotswolds

Vanity Fair (1998)

One of Britain's classic 19th century novels. A tale of two ladies' romantic trials and tribulations, set during the Nepoleonic Wars. Much of the action centred in and around Cheltenham.

Starred: Philip Glenister, Nathaniel Parker, Natasha Little

Location: Pittville Pump Room, Oxford Street, Priory Terrace (as London's fashionable Fulham), Cheltenham Town Hall (for the Grand Ball in Brussels) & Gloucester Docks (as the Port of Madras).

Clandestine Marriage (1998)

Adapted from the stage play set in the late 18th Century, it centres on two families and marriages between them.

Starred: Joan Collins, Nigel Hawthorne, Timothy Spall

Location: Stanway House, near Winchcombe.

Cider with Rosie (1998)

The TV adaptation of Laurie Lee's novel telling the story of his life in Slad. life in an Edwardian courture house with love, jealousy and the trials of the private lives of the owners, Beatrice and Evangeline.

Starred: Juliet Stevenson

Location: Cheltenham Film Studios were used to bring the Slad home to life.

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

An adaptation of Jane Austen's compelling love story of a daring young woman with feminist ideas ahead of her time and the rich young bachelor who falls for her.

Starred: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Julia Sawalha

Location: Cheltenham Town Hall, Oxford Parade.

The Buccaneers (1994)

Drama serial based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel about an anarchic group of adventuring, free-spirited young women who, snubbed by New York's elite, take aristocratic Victorian England by storm.

Location: Stanway House, near Winchcombe.

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Stephens, the perfect English butler entirely engrossed in his service to the aristocracy, reviews his personal life in which he neglected his dying father and denied his feelings for an attractive young housekeeper.

Starred: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson

Location: Badminton House

The Whistle Blower (1993)

A GCHQ spy thriller made for television.

Starred: Michael Caine, Nigel Havers

Location: Cheltenham Railway Station, Lansdown Place and areas around GCHQ.

The House of Elliot (1991 - 94)

The story of life in an Edwardian couture house with love, jealousy and the trials of the private lives of the owners, Beatrice & Evangeline.

Starred: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard.

Location: Pittville Pump Rooms

Emma

TV dramatisation adapted from Jane Austen's famous novel.

Starred: Kate Beckinsale, Prunella Scales

Location: Sudeley Castle, Stanway House

Clarence (1980s)

Ronnie Barker's final TV series before he retired - the adventures of a short-sighted removal man.

Starred: Ronnie Barker

Location: Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham.

Butterflies (1970s)

The long-running TV comedy series set in Cheltenham.

Starred: Wendy Craig, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer

Location: Hatherley Park, Montpellier and a house in Bournside Road was home to the fictional family.

If (1968)

In this allegorical story, a revolution lead by pupil Mick Travers takes place at an old established English private school.

Starred: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster, Arthur Lowe, Mona Washbourne

Location: Cheltenham College and Packhorse Cafe, Tewkesbury Road, four miles outside Cheltenham (no longer exists)