Jean-Pierre Aumont

Joan Hopkins

Cecil Parker

Margaretta Scott

Jack Livesey

Ronald Squire

Athene Seyler

Olwen Brookes

Judy Beaumont

Anthony Hawtrey

Hugh Griffith

Gerard Heinz

Joan Young

George Curzon

Betty Huntley-Wright

Tom Gill

Lydia Sherwood

Frances Waring

Amy Frank

Richard Shayne

Melissa Stribling

Claud Allister

Drusilla Wills

Judith Nelmes

Dorothy Hammond

Beatrice Rowe

Frank Cross

Nicholas Phipps

Arthur Southgate

Reginald Long

Charles Crafford

Philip Stockford

Frank Hollands

Lennox Berkeley

C.P. Norman

Jack Hildyard

Margery Saunders

George Claff

Norman Ginsbury

Elizabeth Haffenden

Ivan Lassgallner

Alberto Cavalcanti

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The First Gentleman

Columbia Pictures

Columbia British Productions

United Kingdom

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Cecil Parker steals each scene in this flamboyant British Regency romance. He is the Prince Regent, elder son of King George III, whose daughter Princess Charlotte (Jean Hopkins) is enamoured of Prince Leopold (Jean-Pierre Aumont). Cavlacanti manages to keep the whole thing moving along in a jolly sort of fashion, with some jolly, period-style, scoring and some nice character parts from the likes of Margaretta Scott and the always reliable Hugh Griffith (this time as a Bishop!). A factual depiction? Well apart from the fact that the young couple really did exist, I can't say, but that doesn't really matter - it is an opportunity for a bit of a theatrical romp through early 19th Century British society that I found mildly entertaining - if perhaps twenty minutes too long.

The First Gentleman

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