The most recent Sunday Times carried the following article called:
Movie stars join fight to save art deco cinema from bulldozers
It was Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite place to watch his films and where Princess Diana took the young William and Harry to see the latest blockbusters. Now one of the country’s most distinctive art deco cinemas stands in darkness, threatened by bulldozers and the plans of developers.
Its last hope of salvation lies with Britain’s show business elite who have launched an attempt to save it. Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, Sir Ian McKellen, David Suchet, Charles Dance, Lord Puttnam, Zoë Wanamaker and Kevin Spacey are among those hoping to preserve the Odeon cinema, which has stood on Kensington High Street in west London since 1926. The building, which became an Odeon after the Second World War, was a firm favourite with Hitchcock who lived nearby.
The cinema closed last year in anticipation of the redevelopment. The Odeon Kensington was only a short walk from where we lived. I remember it most for Saturday Morning Pictures. We didn't go every Saturday but the serials kept you wanting to return. I think it must have been the noise from the cheering and general chat that we gave up going.
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Hi David - I am from the BBC doing a piece of the Kensington Odeon and the campaign and the development issues. Can we please use this photograph of 'Psycho' at the Odeon? Please let me know at helen.mulroy@bbc.co.uk. Many thanks
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