The tenth Elstree Film Evening provided an occasion to bring together a number of guests from the acting profession.

This year there were three special ladies present -- Honor Blackman, Jean Anderson and Constance Cummings.

To me, Honor Blackman has always epitomised style and elegance. Honor is best remembered for her roles in Goldfinger and in The Avengers television series.

She said: "The strange thing is that those early episodes of The Avengers in which I appeared were shot at Teddington, not Elstree, which is always associated with the series."

I first met this charming lady on the set of To the Devil a Daughter at the studios in 1975. She returned last year to unveil a plaque honouring Elizabeth Taylor.

Jean Anderson celebrated her 90th birthday earlier this year. She said: "It was great fun to meet Burt Kwouk at the film evening as we worked together on the Tenko series in which he played the Japanese prison commander. Although most people remember him from the Pink Panther films."

Constance Cummings was starring in Hollywood films back in 1931 and later became a Broadway and West End stage star. "My best-remembered British film is Blythe Spirit opposite Rex Harrison, but I will always fondly remember Elstree where I made my British debut in the 1930s."

By contrast, our youngest guest was 23-year-old newcomer Vaughan Seville who recently appeared in Taggart and the series Close Relations, which was nicknamed Sex on the Sabbath.

He told me: "I have just completed a guest role in Heartbeat, playing a villain, which was a change from the 'nice young man' roles."

He is also writing scripts, and rumour has it that he is going to be a big star in the future. Who knows, he might even follow Matt Damon and write himself an Oscar-winning role.

I mentioned the 'Oscars Irregulars' are always available for cameo roles in any bar scenes, so I will keep my fingers crossed he makes it.

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