Its original purpose was as a multi-purpose cinema and variety hall and was opened by 1930's actress Margaret Lockwood.
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They proved popular with audiences and returned in the Gilliat-and-Launder films Night Train to Munich (1940, also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), and in the BBC radio serials Crook's Tour (1941, made into a film later that year) and Secret Mission 609 (1942).
A 1945 film version with Margaret Lockwood in the lead role, and James Mason as Ralph Chaplin's alter ego Jerry Jackson, broke all British box office records for the time.
In 1944, the theatre was used as a location for the Gainsborough Studios film Love Story, starring Stewart Granger and Margaret Lockwood but inclement weather forced them to retreat to a studio mock-up.
Trouble in the Glen is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles and Forrest Tucker.