Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely anyone failed to tune in on Edward VIII as he took leave of his country or to read within a few hours the simple words with which His Royal Highness said good-by to very nearly all except "the woman I love...
Assuming that Mrs. Simpson becomes the wife of the man who last week called her before all the world "the woman I love," must she then be Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor...
...Love in Exile (Gaumont-British) would greatly interest England's onetime King Edward VIII, for it begins at the point which his career has just reached (see p. 15). Opening scene shows King Regis VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicating the throne of an unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet...
Gaumont-British stoutly maintains that Love in Exile was adapted from Gene Markey's story His Majesty's Pyjamas, was made long before the producers heard of Mrs. Simpson. Aside from its topical interest, it is merely a mediocre melodrama...
...moment when the three little Craig girls dash into a hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig falls in love with him. When the assistant arranges to have a fake Czech count (Mischa Auer) pose as a millionaire decoy for Precious, a genuine English lord (Ray Milland) takes his place by accident, begins a romance with Kay Craig. It devolves on Penny to administer the knockout punch to her father...