Hollywood comes town

Ava Gardner is filmed running up Wilson Hill in Berwick during filming for the 1959 hit movie On the Beach in sweltering conditions. The picture appears in the Berwick Pakenham Historical Society's Berwick Nostalgia publication, available for purchase at the society's museum on the corner of Main Street and Princes Highway in Pakenham. It is open on Sundays between 2pm and 4.30pm.

Hollywood came to Berwick in the sweltering summer of 1959. A-list movie stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire […]

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