Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English golf galleries what "Patty"- redhaired, stocky Patricia Jane Berg, put out last week in the third round - is to golf galleries...
...this reviewer's memory serves him, the film follows its historical motif with reasonable fidelity, although, of course, the emphasis is placed upon the ill-starred Lady Jane Grey and Lord Warwick rather than upon other equally important figures of the time. The director's treatment is thoroughly sympathetic and, although the finale is a foregone conclusion, the movement of Lady Jane upon the chessboard of English politics is one which greatly concerns the spectator...
...Gaumont-British has done a creditable job, and undertaken, with measurable success, the difficult task of reanimating scenes from the past. Nova Pilbeam, the new GB star who plays the part of Lady Jane, may not be a finished actress, but she has a quaint, old-fashioned charm which seems eminently suitable. Cordie Hardwicke, as the ambitious, cold-blooded Warwick, makes an evil geni of convincing unamiability. The supporting cast is of high calibre, thus insuring against any let-down in the minor, transitional scenes...
...wives, is bound to bring reminiscences, of similar doings off the stage. But is is not at all necessary to the success of the play that the polotical and social innuendo strike home. The fascinating tangles of the plot and the satire wrapped up in it, are quite sufficient. Jane Cowl, aspiring all the time to the first ladyship, throws the political impetus to her loathed rival's husband, thinking thereby to tie her down to a deadweight and keep her from taking up with a live possibility. The rival's husband is a stodgy jurist who spends his time...
...formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter...