Rolls-Royce Celebrates The 2013 Goodwood Revival

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated a record Goodwood Revival this past weekend, with all three days of the event selling out a month ahead of the event for the first time.  The local manufacturer of the super-luxury motor cars hosted customers, prospects, VIPs and also entertained the thousands of visitors to the world's most popular historic motor race meeting in true Rolls-Royce style. This year the Rolls-Royce showroom at the March Motor Works – an authentic recreation of a 1960s dealership – was the set for filming of ‘The Yellow Rolls-Royce’. The MGM movie was released in 1964 and featured an all-star cast including Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott and Omar Sharif. The scene is based on the opening sequence of the film, set in 1931, where the character Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is buying a Rolls-Royce Phantom II Sedanca De Ville from a London Showroom. The treatment of the film set décor closely follows that of the film and the theatre, only possible at the Goodwood Revival, consisted of the cast filming on set and in preparation for filming. The ‘Yellow Rolls-Royce’ took the lead role.