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...times in Deauville. But things were not equally idyllic elsewhere in 'France. Down in Biarritz business was terrible, and a lot of big-name guests were getting free hotel rooms just to provide publicity. The Duke of Windsor had been heard to murmur, as he escorted his Duchess about town: "Now when my father was here...
Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg...
...Flanders. Pierre's great aim in life is to win the English throne. He announces that he is really Richard, Duke of York, who was supposedly murdered by his evil uncle, Richard III. As proof of his claim, Pierre flashes a ruby ring given him by the Duchess of Burgundy-whom everybody else admits is an honest-to-gosh descendant of York...
...prisoner in the Tower of London, publicly confessing that he is a mere impostor and not the Duke of York at all. Shrewd Henry VII suspects a deeper, secret truth: that Pierre is really a bastard son of the Duchess of Burgundy and the Bishop of Cambrai. Thus, as the proud, yellow-haired pretender is led to the gallows and his bride languishes an unwilling attendant at Henry's court, it may be that Pierre has the Plantagenet blood in him after all. But everybody is too exhausted to care much...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...