A new calendar of nude members of a village WI, whose story inspired a £500,000 fundraising bonanza and now a film, will be launched later this year.

The calendar also features photographs of screen stars including Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, who play members of the Rylstone and District WI.

It will be in the shops from September, the time when the movie Calendar Girls is released worldwide.

The film tells how members of the WI, near Skipton, made a calendar of nude pin-up pictures of themselves to raise thousands of pounds for Leukaemia Research.

The calendar was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and last week members of the WI found themselves rubbing shoulders with the stars when the film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The new calendar, published by Penguin, features six of the original WI members - now know as "Baker's half dozen" - Angela Baker, Tricia Stewart, Lynda Logan, Beryl Bamforth, Christine Clancy and Ros Fawcett.

They are joined by the actresses who play them in the film - Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, Linda Bassett, Celia Imrie and Annette Crosbie.

The movie has won worldwide acclaim and is being hailed as being the next big success for the British film industry.

Tricia Stewart, 53, of Cracoe, near Skipton, and Angela Baker, 55, of Linton, near Skipton, joined the stars at the Cannes festival to promote the film, which will have its UK premiere in September with a special showing in Skipton.

Tricia said she expected the new, 2004 calendar to outstrip the original in raising cash for Leukamia Research.

"We have always talked about doing another calendar, but we didn't think it would come about," she said.

"It's fantastic. We think it will make a fortune - much more than the original."

The photographs are again taken by Terry Logan from Threshfield, who took the pictures for the original calendar, which was produced in memory of Mrs Baker's husband John, a Yorkshire Dales National Park officer, who died aged 53 in 1996.

Royalties from the film and profits from the new calendar will go to Leukaemia Research.

"When we arrived in Cannes we were amazed to see a giant poster of the Calendar Girls next to posters for Matrix Reloaded and Terminator 3," said Tricia.

"From then on it was non-stop interviews with the world's press and television. We had just a couple of hours off - just enough for a lie on the beach."

The movie features the six Calendar Girls who gave their backing to the movie, but only the characters of Tricia Stewart and Angela Baker are represented in any detail.

The choice of an American producer, Buena Vista, split the ranks of the 11 women who posed for the original calendar.

The other five wanted a British company to make the film.