Word: flavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally, but he feels like a dog. Meantime the attractively villainous Rupert of Hentzau (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) has made everything more complicated by kidnapping the real king, holding him prisoner in the Castle of Zenda...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...
Died. Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, 86, widow of the late James Hulme Canfield (onetime president of Ohio State University), mother of Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher (The Bent Twig, The Brimming Cup, Her Son's Wife); at her country home near Arlington...