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Article: A theatrical name dropper's paradise! The house with memories of Gielgud, Garbo, Coward, Leigh, Burton, Taylor and Guinness...
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2003
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Byline: CATHERINE MOYE SOGGS
Parva might sound like a fictional place where Bertie Wooster had one of his adventures but the cast of characters who stayed at this very real country house was far more glamorous than anyone in P. G. Wodehouse.
Set on the Kent-Sussex border at Ewhurst Green, it was one of the foremost weekend retreats for the acting and social elite of the Sixties and Seventies.
Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness and Vivien Leigh were all Soggs Parva regulars. Greta Garbo, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Margot Fonteyn, Lady Diana Cooper and the Duchess of Argyll decamped there from time to time, together with the leading ...