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Rivoli Ballroom

This ballroom was used in the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron, during a scene where the Scarlet Witch confuses Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) so that he finds himself back in the 1940s with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), in the scarlet splendour of the Rivoli Ballroom. Originally built as a picture palace in 1913, it’s the only intact 1950s ballroom in London. The Rivoli’s barrel-vaulted ceiling, plush red velvet gold-framed walls, crystal chandeliers and Chinese lanterns become the Krays' 'Esmeralda's Barn' nightclub in Brian Helgeland's Legend, with Tom Hardy as both Ron and Reggie, and were also seen in My Week With Marilyn, in the excellent (if little seen) romcom This Year’s Love and in David A Stewart’s turkey Honest. Its bar became the ‘East Berlin’ club where Brad Pitt stops off in Tony Scott’s Spy Game.