Worton Hall closed as a studio in 1951. A Google search for Sir Alexander Korda who owned it gives 10 + pages.Also try The Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com I searched for Worton Hall and found it gives all sorts of wrong leads, but interesting !The most famous movie made there was The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, only the water scenes were shot in Isleworth because Hepburn's father had warned of the danger of Bilharsia (a water bourne parasitic disease) in Africa where the movie was shot on location.This is from the IMDB: Trivia for The African Queen (1951)The first choices for the lead roles were John Mills and Bette Davis.The scenes in the reed-filled riverbank were filmed in Dalyan, Turkey.Originally offered to Bette Davis in 1938, the film would have co-starred David Niven as Charlie. It was offered to Davis again in 1947, this time to co-star James Mason, but she had to pull out of the project due to pregnancy. In 1949, Davis tried again to make the film, but by that time plans were under way for Katharine Hepburn to star.This is the role that won Humphrey Bogart the only Oscar of his career.Known as the "LS Livingston", the "Queen of Africa" was a working steam boat for 40 years prior to it being "cast" in the movie.The boat is now docked next to the Holiday Inn just off US Highway 1, in Key Largo, Florida.Walt Disney used this film as the basis for the Disneyland's "Jungle Cruise" attraction.To show her disgust with the amount of alcohol that John Huston and Humphrey Bogart consumed during filming, Katharine Hepburn drank only water. As a result, she suffered a severe bout of dysentery.The leeches were first modeled in Plasticine before moulds were made and the leeches Bogart pulls off were made of rubber.
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