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[[Blenheim Palace]] has frequently been the setting for books, TV programs and films and other events. These include:
[[Blenheim Palace]] has frequently been the setting for books, TV programs and films and other events.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=The sourcing only seems to bear out that it is a common shooting location (often representing some other, perhaps fictional, location).}} These include:


== As a filming location ==
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[[architecture|Architectural]] [[history|historian]] [[Dan Cruickshank]] selected the Palace as one of his four choices for the 2002 [[BBC]] [[television]] [[documentary series]] ''[[Britain's Best Buildings]]''.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/programme_archive/best_buildings_05.shtml | title=Choosing Britain's Best Buildings | accessdate = 2008-06-03| last=Cruickshank | first=Dan | publisher=BBC History }}</ref>
A 2021 survey by [[House of Oak]] concluded that Blenheim Palace had made 71 appearances in film and television, more than any other [[English country house]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blenheim Palace makes most TV and film appearances |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19097592.blenheim-palace-makes-tv-film-appearances/ |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=[[Oxford Mail]] |language=en}}</ref> the site offers a tour of the various filming locations there.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Blenheim... the ultimate movie palace |url=http://www.henleylife.co.uk/henley-life/blenheim-the-ultimate-movie-palace-109.html |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=www.henleylife.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-01-08 |title=Go 'on location' with Blenheim Palace's new film trail |url=https://www.groupleisureandtravel.com/news-and-views/go-on-location-with-blenheim-palaces-new-film-trail/8381.article |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811164319/https://www.groupleisureandtravel.com/news-and-views/go-on-location-with-blenheim-palaces-new-film-trail/8381.article |archive-date=2020-08-11 |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=Group Leisure and Travel |language=en}}</ref> Films shot at the exteriors include [[Spectre (2015 film)|''Spectre'']] while the interior has been used as a filming location for ''[[Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation]]'' among others.<ref name=":0" />

[[Blenheim Horse Trials]] is an annual [[three-day event]] rated [[Concours Complet International|CCI***]] (the second highest level of eventing), and Blenheim hosted the [[European Eventing Championships]] in 2005.


== Blenheim on film and TV ==
== Blenheim on film and TV ==
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[[architecture|Architectural]] [[history|historian]] [[Dan Cruickshank]] selected the Palace as one of his four choices for the 2002 [[BBC]] [[television]] [[documentary series]] ''[[Britain's Best Buildings]]''.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web |last=Cruickshank |first=Dan |title=Choosing Britain's Best Buildings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/programme_archive/best_buildings_05.shtml |publisher=BBC History |accessdate=2008-06-03}}</ref>
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*''[[Transformers: The Last Knight]]'' (2017)
*''[[Fan (film)|Fan]]'' (2016)
*''[[The BFG (2016 film)|The BFG]]'' (2016) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dayvisits.co.uk/news/blenheim-palaces-gloriumptious-role-disneys-new-bfg-film|title = Blenheim Palace's Gloriumptious Role in Disney's New BFG Film &#124; dayvisits.co.uk}}</ref>
*''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]]'' (2015) - doubling for [[SPECTRE]]'s meeting in central Rome
*''[[Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation|Rogue Nation]]'' (2015)
*''[[The Royals (TV series)|The Royals]]'' (2015)
*''[[Cinderella (2015 Disney film)|Cinderella]]'' (2015) (Cinderella arrives at the ball)
*''[[The Amazing Race 25]]'' (2014)
*''[[A Little Chaos]]'' (2013)
*''[[Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (2010)
*''[[Lewis (TV series)|Lewis]]'' (2009) – Episode 3.03: The Point of Vanishing
*''[[The Young Victoria]]'' (2009)
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' (2007) (Snape's flashback by the Black Lake as a Hogwarts student with The Marauders)
*''[[The Libertine (2005 film)|The Libertine]]'' (2005)
*''[[The Lost Prince]]'' (2003)
*''[[The Four Feathers (2002 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' (2002)
*''[[Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham]]'' (2001)
*''[[Entrapment (film)|Entrapment]]'' (1999)
*''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers]]'' (1998)
*''[[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1996) – The incumbent Duke has a role as a Norwegian captain. Only the exteriors of the palace were used.
*''[[The Way Through the Woods (TV)|Inspector Morse: The Way Through the Woods]]'' (1995)
*''[[Black Beauty (1994 film)|Black Beauty]]'' (1994)
*''[[Orlando (film)|Orlando]]'' (1992)
*''Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (Australian TV Tonight Show) '' (1992)
*''[[King Ralph]]'' (1991)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-film-locations.com/King-Ralph-1991 |title=Where was ''King Ralph'' filmed? |publisher=British Film Locations |accessdate=31 October 2017}}</ref>
*''[[Without a Clue]]'' (1988)
*''[[Treasure Houses of Britain (1985 TV series)|Treasure Houses of Britain]]'' (1985)
*''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]'' (1984)
*''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' (1982)
*''[[Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years]]'' (1981)
*''[[History of the World, Part I]]'' (1981)
*''[[Barry Lyndon]]'' (1975)
*''[[The Legend of Hell House]]'' (1973)
*''[[Young Winston]]'' (1972)
*''[[Half A Sixpence]]'' (1967)
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=== Other media ===
The [[BBC Radio Four]] programme ''[[Just a Minute]]'' was recorded (twice) at Blenheim with [[Clement Freud]], [[Derek Nimmo]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] and [[Kit Hesketh-Harvey]]. They were broadcast in 1998.

In 2019 Blenheim was the subject of news-coverage concerning the exhibition and later theft of [[Maurizio Cattelan]]'s sculpture ''[[America (Maurizio Cattelan)|America]]'', a gold toilet.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Soto |first1=Kaly |title=Golden, Going Gone: 18-Karat Gold Toilet Is Stolen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/europe/golden-going-gone-18-karat-gold-toilet-is-stolen.html |accessdate=11 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=14 September 2019}}</ref>

==Blenheim in fiction==
* The setting for [[T. H. White]]'s novel ''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a huge, ruined estate called Malplaquet. While this is an obvious parody of Blenheim Palace, it is also related to the landscape, architecture and local geography of Stowe School where T.H. White taught for many years.
* In [[Neil Simon]]'s play [[Brighton Beach Memoirs]], (and the film adaptation), Eugene mentions "Blenheim Castle" in the dinner scene.
* There is a scene in a partially finished Blenheim Palace in ''[[The System of the World (novel)|The System of the World]]'', the last volume of [[Neal Stephenson]]'s [[Baroque Cycle]]. [[John Churchill]] also plays a prominent role in the last book.
*Blenheim features prominently in Karen Harper’s historical fiction account of Consuelo Vanderbilt’s life in the book American Duchess.
*Blenheim Palace, the [[Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough|9th Duke]], [[Consuelo Vanderbilt]] and [[Gladys Deacon]] feature prominently in [[Robin Paige]]'s novel ''Death at Blenheim Palace''.
* In Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair, the use of the Palace for secret war work is the background for undergraduate life at Oxford University.

*The novel "A Weekend at Blenheim", by J.P Morrissey, published 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books "A superb reconstrction of the aristocratic autumn of Edwardian England...a gripping tale of intrigue."-Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost
"In richly textured description J.P Morgan evokes a period and place - Blenheim Palace in the very early 1900s - rarely (if ever) touched upon in fiction. The characters are a delight: Winston Churchill (in his youth, which prtery much foretells his age); John Singer Sargent (deliciously at his peak); the Duchess of Marlborough (up to no good) among them. A winning mystery." -Martha Grimes, author of the bestselling Richard Jury series.


== Blenheim in art ==
== Blenheim in art ==
American musician Barry Manilow performed a concert for over 40,000 fans on the grounds of the Palace on August 27, 1983. The recorded concert was released on VHS and later on DVD as "Barry Manilow: The Concert at Blenheim Palace."

The British painter [[John Piper (artist)|John Piper]] (1903–1992) was commissioned to paint scenes in the grounds of the palace during the 1980s. In 2012, an exhibition of the artist's work entitled ''John Piper at Blenheim Palace'' was held in a room at the palace to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Piper's death.<ref>{{cite book | title=John Piper: Blenheim Palace | publisher=[[Blenheim Palace]] | author=Bapasola, Jeri | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-9502344-7-2}}</ref>
The British painter [[John Piper (artist)|John Piper]] (1903–1992) was commissioned to paint scenes in the grounds of the palace during the 1980s. In 2012, an exhibition of the artist's work entitled ''John Piper at Blenheim Palace'' was held in a room at the palace to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Piper's death.<ref>{{cite book | title=John Piper: Blenheim Palace | publisher=[[Blenheim Palace]] | author=Bapasola, Jeri | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-9502344-7-2}}</ref>

In October 2004, British jazz-pop pianist [[Jamie Cullum]] released "Live at Blenheim Palace," a 145-minute live concert [[DVD]] of his performance at the Blenheim Palace Music Festival on 1 July 2004.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jamie-Cullum-Live-Blenheim-Palace/dp/B0002IO9P2 Amazon.com listing], "Jamie Cullum – Live at Blenheim Palace [DVD] (2004)", retrieved 25 July 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/music/detail.aspx?pid=11102&aid=6099 Verve Music Group artist/item page], "Jamie Cullum – Live At Blenheim Palace [DVD]", retrieved 25 July 2012</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/2004/07/blenheim_music_fest.shtml BBC page for 2004 Blenheim Palace Music Festival], retrieved 25 July 2012.</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 05:07, 10 May 2023

Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace has frequently been the setting for books, TV programs and films and other events.[citation needed] These include:

As a filming location

A 2021 survey by House of Oak concluded that Blenheim Palace had made 71 appearances in film and television, more than any other English country house;[1] the site offers a tour of the various filming locations there.[2][3] Films shot at the exteriors include Spectre while the interior has been used as a filming location for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation among others.[2]

Blenheim on film and TV

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Palace as one of his four choices for the 2002 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.[4]

Blenheim in art

The British painter John Piper (1903–1992) was commissioned to paint scenes in the grounds of the palace during the 1980s. In 2012, an exhibition of the artist's work entitled John Piper at Blenheim Palace was held in a room at the palace to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Piper's death.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Blenheim Palace makes most TV and film appearances". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  2. ^ a b "Blenheim... the ultimate movie palace". www.henleylife.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  3. ^ "Go 'on location' with Blenheim Palace's new film trail". Group Leisure and Travel. 2020-01-08. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  4. ^ Cruickshank, Dan. "Choosing Britain's Best Buildings". BBC History. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
  5. ^ Bapasola, Jeri (2012). John Piper: Blenheim Palace. Blenheim Palace. ISBN 978-0-9502344-7-2.
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