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When Knighthood Was in Flower is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert G. Vignola released in USA on 15 september 1922 with Marion Davies

When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)

When Knighthood Was in Flower
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Released in USA 15 september 1922
Length 2h14
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2453353.2453353.2453353.2453353.245335

When Knighthood Was in Flower is a 1922 silent historical film based on the novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major and play by Paul Kester. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst (or his Cosmopolitan Productions) for his 'live-in companion' Marion Davies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The director was veteran Robert G. Vignola who helmed several of Davies costume romances. This was William Powell's second film. The story was re-filmed in the sound era in 1953 as The Sword and the Rose by Ken Annakin.

Synopsis

Mary Tudor (Marion Davies), the younger sister of King Henry VIII (Lyn Harding), falls in love with commoner Charles Brandon (Forrest Stanley). There are other plans for Mary, however; she is supposed to make a politically strategic marriage to the elderly King Louis XII of France (William Norris). Brandon is framed for murder, but Mary, disguised as a boy, helps him to escape. Henry tracks down his sister and her lover at a Bristol Inn, and Mary agrees to wed the French king if Brandon's life is spared. After Brandon is exiled, Mary goes ahead with the wedding, but King Louis, in his attempt to prove he is lively enough for such a pretty young bride, drops dead. His nephew and heir to the throne, Francis (William Powell), wants to wed Mary, but Brandon comes to the rescue. When Henry discovers that his sister and Brandon have married, he remarks, "I should have consented in the first place, and saved us all this trouble.

Actors

Marion Davies

(Mary Tudor)William Powell

(Francis I)Forrest Stanley

(Charles Brandon)Gustav von Seyffertitz

(Grammont)Teresa Maxwell-Conover

(Queen Catherine (as Theresa Maxwell Conover))
And :
Paul Panzer
Pedro de Cordoba
Flora Finch
William T. Kent
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