The Pearls of the Crown

May 12, 1937

1h 40m

★ 6.2

Overview

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Genres

Comedy

History

Production Companies

Cinéas

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Cast

Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III

Sacha Guitry

Françoise Martin / Marie Stuart / Joséphine de Beauharnais

Jacqueline Delubac

John Russell / Henry VIII

Lyn Harding

Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne

Renée Saint-Cyr

Signor Ribaldi

Enrico Glori

Le pape Clement VII

Ernete Zacconi

Anne Boleyn

Barbara Shaw

Catherine de Medicis (1860) / L'impératrice Eugénie âgée (1914)

Marguerite Moreno

La reine abyssine

Arletty

Le prêtre

Marcel Dalio

Le prisonnier Italien en Abyssinie

Claude Dauphin

Le prisonnier Français en Abyssinie

Robert Seller

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