MPX5067622: To make the film of the Arnhem Airborne attack in 1944, the film of Cornelius Ryan's book "A Bridge Too Far", needed an Army - an Army of actors. So the company recruited their own! All actors, but in a few weeks turned into soldiers. Their wives and girlfriends would never have known them. Director of "A Bridge Too Far" Sir Richard Attenborough inspects "Attenborough's Army". May 1976 P016957 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5068041: Alan Cunn At his potty premises called The Trick Shop in Doncaster, he dispenses instant hilarity with the aid of imitation boils, water squirting cameras, collapsing coat hooks, rubber pencils and plastic cucumber slices. "Its great making people laugh", he says. "Ee you have to laugh don't you"? February 1977 P018789 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5074231: Grandstand goes into colour on the first day of the full BBC 1 colour service, 15th November, so the team of girls seen on screen typing lists, tending teleprinters and helping bring the latest sports news to Grandstand's millions of viewers are to get special mini dresses. (left to right) Wendy Roberts (19), Jeanne Bethell (25), Frank Bough the Grandstand commentator, Jane Heyner (18), Diana Watson (23) and Adrienne Salonika (19). November 1969 / Bridgeman Images