With Britain and the Allies becoming increasingly desperate, Winston Churchill spearheaded the Secret Operations Executive to recruit and train women as spies. It’s based on one of the more remarkable true stories to come out of in the early stages of World War II. Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, the film has received generally favorable reviews and is now available on various streaming services. She also plays a lead role in the low-budget fact-based historical drama, which took four years to complete. Thomas produced A Call to Spy and wrote its screenplay. “Every room was France, London and Scotland.” “We used every single room on the first floor,” says Main Line native Sarah Megan Thomas of the 10-day shoot in Spring 2018. “Funny how they believe the interiors were re-created,” says Joanie Mackie, a family liaison for Villanova’s Ardrossan estate.įor the first time ever, the iconic home of the family that inspired 1940’s The Philadelphia Story became an actual movie set. When A Call to Spy was released in the United Kingdom, a positive review in The Guardian praised the film’s “meticulous depiction of female wartime agents … and the considerable effort that has clearly gone into re-creating period interiors and ephemera.” Photo by Jordan Matter Through this new film, Haverford native Sarah Megan Thomas makes the historic Ardrossan estate a hub for on-screen espionage.

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