Paris to Piccadilly

One of the stage productions Pamela Green starred in was the Folies-Bergère review Paris to Piccadilly at the Prince of Wales Theatre, in which Norman Wisdom appeared in half-a-dozen sketches scattered through the show. Pam found working at the Prince of Wales Theatre was a vast improvement on the London Casino in Old Compton Street. There were seven nudes and fifteen showgirls, of which half were Bluebell Girls. The dressing room for the nudes was underneath the stage next to the band room. They sat at one table with a central mirror, and there was one stone sink in the corner that had cold water only. They had a dresser called Ellen, who helped them with their costumes. In the opening number, the set was the Champs Élysées. The nudes wearing feather boas, stood in front of a tree each while the showgirls came on stage walking poodles.

Lilliput magazine in their January-February issue in 1953 did a 5-page article that took a look backstage. The photographs were taken by George Varjas, one of a large and influential group of talented Hungarians who fled westward before the Second World War.