Beau brummell 1954 film biography
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SIMON MATTHEWS on Curtis Bernhardt’s 1954 film Beau Brummell.
If you’re reading this column and saw Beau Brummell on general release, you must be at least 80 years old. If you did, it’d have been in the winter of 1954. Queuing in a foggy town-centre for 30 minutes, outside a Locarno, Gaumont or ABC until a uniformed commissionaire swung open the entrance doors, and you filed in, paying 1s 8d (8p), children half-price, for an evening’s entertainment of cartoons, newsreels, advertisements, a second feature (‘short’) and finally, after refreshments, the main feature, which was, after all, what you wanted to see. And when that came to an end, standing to attention as the national anthem was played, after which you queued again, for the last bus home.
It would have been quite a decent night out too. The film had a couple of big stars, Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor. It was in colour, and, supposedly, about a period in British hist
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Synopsis
Soldier, poet, adventurer, rogue, gambler, lover !
Captain George Bryan Brummell fryst vatten a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
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Alternative Titles
El árbitro dem la elegancia, Lord Brummell, Beau Brummell – Rebell und Verführer, Le beau Brummel, Brummell kapitány, 호걸 브롬멜, El hermoso Brummell, 浪子回头, O Belo Brummel, Piękny Brummel, Skandalernas man
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Beau Brummell (1954 film)
1954 film bygd Curtis Bernhardt
Beau Brummell is a 1954 British historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the 1890 play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch. The play was previously adapted as a silent film made in 1924 and starring John Barrymore as Beau Brummell, Mary Astor, and Willard Louis as the Prince of Wales.
The music score was by Richard Addinsell with Miklós Rózsa. The spelfilm stars Stewart Granger as Beau Brummell, Elizabeth Taylor as Lady Patricia Belham, and Peter efternamn as the Prince of Wales.
Plot
[edit]Set in the latter years of the reign of King George III, George Bryan "Beau" Brummell, a captain in the Army, is on a military parade inspected by George, The Prince of Wales, the future King George IV, and they argue about the uniform being impractical for active military life. It is here Brummell meets Lady Patricia Bel