Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra are just a few of the names featured in 'Love from London: A City of Stars', a new photographic exhibition by Getty Images Gallery in association with Film London.

The free exhibition, which will run from 26 August until 9 October 2010 at the Getty Images Gallery in central London, brings together a collection of stunning shots from Getty's Hulton Archive, some of which will be on display for the first time ever.

Stars from Hollywood's golden age and legendary actors spending time in the capital are the focus of the exhibition, which displays over 50 black and white images revealing iconic characters framed in equally iconic surroundings.

'Love from London: A City of Stars' will give visitors an opportunity to relive surprising, endearing and historical moments captured over six decades. French beauty Brigitte Bardot travelling on the tube, a young Barbara Windsor enjoying in Battersea Park Fun Fair, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin arriving in London at the peak of their careers in 1961, Alfred Hitchcock posing outside the British Museum or Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier having tea at the Savoy Hotel are just some of the rare moments captured which will be on display from August.

'A City of Stars' is a partnership between Getty Images Gallery and Film London's film tourism banner, Love from London, which launched earlier this year. The exhibition comes after another tourism-boosting initiative from the brand, the Love from London Movie Map, which points at over a hundred locations in the city used in films over the decades. Coinciding with the photographic display, the map will be updated with information about the spots where legendary actors and directors where born and lived as well as details and location of all cinemas in the capital.

Also to mark the exhibition, Film London will release limited edition collectable postcards featuring some of the key images that will be on display.

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