Director: Anthony Asquith

Writer: Terence Rattigan

Music by: Miklos Rozsa

Producer: Anatole de Grunwald

Keywords: Romantic Drama

Members of the 1960s jet set stuck in the V.I.P. lounge at Heathrow Airport due to heavy fog have minor crises in a Grand Hotel structured soap opera. Multiple threads, foremost among them a love triangle between millionaire executive Paul Andros, his wife Frances, and the opportunistic Marc Champsella with whom Frances is having an affair. Margaret Rutherford won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Richard Burton	Actor	10-Nov-1925	5-Aug-1984	Nineteen Eighty Four
Linda Christian	Actor	13-Nov-1923	22-Jul-2011	Ex-Wife of Tyrone Power
Robert Coote	Actor	4-Feb-1909	26-Nov-1982	My Fair Lady
David Frost	Journalist	7-Apr-1939	31-Aug-2013	BBC's Breakfast with Frost
Michael Hordern	Actor	3-Oct-1911	2-May-1995	The Slipper and the Rose
Louis Jourdan	Actor	19-Jun-1919	14-Feb-2015	Kamal in Octopussy
Elsa Martinelli	Actor	13-Jan-1935	8-Jul-2017	Hatari!
Dennis Price	Actor	23-Jun-1915	6-Oct-1973	The World of Wooster
Margaret Rutherford	Actor	11-May-1892	22-May-1972	The V.I.P.s
Peter Sallis	Actor	1-Feb-1921	2-Jun-2017	Last of the Summer Wine
Maggie Smith	Actor	28-Dec-1934		Prof. McGonagall in Harry Potter
Elizabeth Taylor	Actor	27-Feb-1932	23-Mar-2011	Cleopatra
Rod Taylor	Actor	11-Jan-1930	7-Jan-2015	The Time Machine
Richard Wattis	Actor	25-Feb-1912	1-Feb-1975	English comic actor
Orson Welles	Actor	6-May-1915	10-Oct-1985	Citizen Kane

CAST

Elizabeth Taylor	...   Frances Andros
Richard Burton	...   Paul Andros
Louis Jourdan	...   Marc Champselle
Elsa Martinelli	...   Gloria Gritti
Margaret Rutherford	...   The Duchess of Brighton
Maggie Smith	...   Miss Mead
Rod Taylor	...   Les Mangrum
Orson Welles	...   Max Buda
also starring
Linda Christian	...   Miriam Marshall
Dennis Price	...   Cmdr. Millbank
Richard Wattis	...   Sanders
Ronald Fraser	...   Joslin
and
David Frost	...   Reporter
Robert Coote	...   John Coburn
Joan Benham	...   Miss Potter
Michael Hordern	...   Airport Director
Lance Percival	...   BOAC Official
Martin Miller	...   Schwutzbacher
Peter Sallis	...   Doctor
Stringer Davis	...   Hotel Waiter
Clifton Jones	...   Jamaican Passenger
Moyra Fraser	...   Air Hostess

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