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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...coming Station WPIX (to open June 15) solved its cinema problem for a year or so with a shrewd buy. For $130,000 the News picked up 24 of British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda's best old films, including such past hits as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Lady Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Artist at Work | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...reviewing British films for the past decade, the picture takes retrospective glances at scenes from such pictures as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Colonel Blimp. The film also introduces a few British faces still new to U.S. audiences: Googie Withers, Ann Todd, James Mason and Stewart Granger. This timely short should make U.S. cinemaddicts curious-and Hollywood's cinemanufacturers nervous-about Britain's celluloid exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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