The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
Les perles de la couronne (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Jacqueline Delubac	...	Françoise Martin / Mary Queen of Scots / Josephine
	Sacha Guitry	...	Jean Martin / François I / Barras / Napoleon III
	Lyn Harding	...	Equerry (English narrator) / Henry VIII
	Renée Saint-Cyr	...	Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne
	Enrico Glori	...	Chamberlain (Italian narrator)
	Ermete Zacconi	...	Pope Clement VII
	Barbara Shaw	...	Anne Boleyn
	Marguerite Moreno	...	Catherine de Medicis (1860) / Empress Eugenie (1914)
	Arletty	...	Queen of Abyssinia
	Marcel Dalio	...	Abyssinian Minister (as Dalio)
	Claude Dauphin	...	Italian in Abyssinia
	Robert Seller	...	Englishman in Abyssinia
	Ponzio	...	Singing worker
	Andrews Engelmann	...	The Robber (as Engelman)
	Yvette Pienne	...	Queen Mary Tudor / Queen Elizabeth I / Queen Victoria

Storyline

Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>  

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