The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
Les Perles de la couronne
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
- Date of release
- 1937-05-12
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy, History
- Director
- Sacha Guitry
Casting
- Sacha Guitry — Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III
- Jacqueline Delubac — Françoise Martin / Marie Stuart / Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Lyn Harding — John Russell / Henry VIII
- Renée Saint-Cyr — Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne
- Enrico Glori — Signor Ribaldi
- Ernete Zacconi — Le pape Clement VII
- Barbara Shaw — Anne Boleyn
- Marguerite Moreno — Catherine de Medicis (1860) / L'impératrice Eugénie âgée (1914)
- Arletty — La reine abyssine
- Marcel Dalio — Le prêtre
- Claude Dauphin — Le prisonnier Italien en Abyssinie
- Robert Seller — Le prisonnier Français en Abyssinie
Interesting facts
The Pearls of the Crown is a 1937 French comedy film of historically based fiction by Sacha Guitry who plays four roles in it. Guitry's Jean Martin investigates the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England, while the other three initially go missing.
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