Word: princess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princess of the Swedish blood royal, he was a poor but honest piano player. They met in a London nightclub where he was a paid performer. He proposed, and she accepted. But the princess' mother forbade the marriage, and the lovers sadly parted...
...painting, and became the great painter of the 19th century Romantic movement. Choosing a scene from the popular 14th century Portuguese romance of chivalry, Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even the sky is turbulent...
...eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape of a native--though properly British-educated--princess whom the travelers rescue as she is about to be sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. There is even a second lastminite rescue when the valet is nearly broiled alive by some American Indians. It's all great...
...hand at delivering the cultivated sneer, plays the intrepid and imperturbable voyager in a way which leaves nothing to be desired. A famous Mexican comedian named Cantinflas is consistently funny throughout as the valet, and shines particulary in a humorous interpretation of a bullfight. Shirley MacLaine plays the Indian princess, and the late Robert Newton makes his last screen appearance as a detective who pursues the travelers under the impression that he is chasing a pair of bank robbers. Todd has also somehow managed to get 44 stage and screen stars to play bit parts. They include such varied figures...
...First Gentleman, also known as the Prince Regent and George IV of England, is shown chiefly as a father in Norman Ginsbury's period piece. For two acts the rakish, selfish, stylish Regent insists that Princess Charlotte marry the Prince of Orange, before giving her the Prince Leopold she loves. There are gaudy family scenes-the best one between an unhappy, runaway Charlotte and her unhappier, cast-aside mother-preceding Charlotte's death in childbed...