After the war, bursting with ideas and with a new husband, Gerry Raffles, nine years her junior, whom she had met when he was a teenager, Miss Littlewood once again set out to show ordinary people the magic of theatre.

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The entertaining episode also features a guest appearance from pinball designer John Popaduik who, through his work at electronic gaming manufacturer Williams Bally Midway, played an integral role in the design process for pinball machines such as Circus Voltaire and Theatre of Magic.

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Hollywood's elusive magic is best experienced inside the Chinese Theatre - a bona fide movie palace that opened in 1927 under the direction of Sid Grauman.

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At the beginning of his new film, the director Leos Carax, as himself, wakes up in bed and steps through a magic portal and onto the balcony of a movie theatre.

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