Filming for A Hard Day's Night - March 2, 1964

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Event
Date	March 2, 1964
Short description	Filming for A Hard Day's Night.
Location

The Beatles joined the actors union at Paddington Station only minutes before filming began. They were proposed and seconded by Wilfrid Brambell and Norman Rossington, tw actors who played major parts in the film. They were at Paddington because their first six days of filming were to take place on a moving train. Producer Walter Shenson's company, Proscenium Films, paid 600 pounds per day to rent the train. At 8:30 AM, while fans were gathered outside, the train departed for West Country. For the first three days of filming, the destination was Minehead. For the rest of the week, it was Taunton and Newton Abbot. No filming actually took place at Paddington Station. A train sequence filmed on this day is when John flirts with two "schoolgirls" on the train. One of them was model Pattie Boyd, who would later become George Harrison's wife. Director Richard Lester originally worked with Boyd on a commercial for Smith's potato crisps. George started liking her immediately. They married on January 21, 1966.

Source

• LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com