Beau Brummell (Original title)Beau Brummel (Alternative title)
Date: 20 December 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Curtis Bernhardt
Synopsis: Elegant scoundrel, spendthrift, leader of fashion in England's 18th century, Beau Brummell is all of these things. Favourite of the Prince of Wales he is envied by lords and admired by their ladies. A foolish remark leads to a falling out with his royal patron. He is forced to flee abroad and dies alone and penniless but with proud dignity - a gentleman to the end.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subject: 18th century
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 111 mins Length: 10028 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 20 December 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Curtis Bernhardt
Synopsis: Elegant scoundrel, spendthrift, leader of fashion in England's 18th century, Beau Brummell is all of these things. Favourite of the Prince of Wales he is envied by lords and admired by their ladies. A foolish remark leads to a falling out with his royal patron. He is forced to flee abroad and dies alone and penniless but with proud dignity - a gentleman to the end.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subject: 18th century
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 111 mins Length: 10028 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Loew's Incorporated, Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Produced by: Sam Zimbalist, Assistant Director: John Street, Casting: Irene Howard, Screen play by: Karl Tunberg, Based on the play written for Richard Mansfield by: Clyde Fitch, Director of Photography: Oswald Morris, Photographic Effects: Tom Howard, Film Editor: Frank Clarke, Art Director: Alfred Junge, Costumes Designed by: Elizabeth Haffenden, Make-up: Charles Parker, Hairdressing: Joan Johnstone, Photographed in: Eastman Color, Print by: Technicolor, Music Composed by: Richard Addinsell, [Music] Played by: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Recording Director: A.W. Watkins, Sound System: Western Electric Recording, Unit Car Driver: Eddie Frewin
Cast
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Stewart Granger (Beau Brummell), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Patricia), Peter Ustinov (Prince of Wales), Robert Morley (King George III), James Donald (Lord Edwin Mercer), James Hayter (Mortimer), Rosemary Harris (Mrs Fitzherbert), Paul Rogers (William Pitt), Noel Willman (Lord Byron), Peter Dyneley (Midger), Charles Carson (Sir Geoffrey Baker), Ernest Clark (Doctor Warren), Peter Bull (Mr Fox), Mark Dignam (Mr Burke), Desmond Roberts (Colonel), David Horne (Thurlow), Ralph Truman (Sir Ralph Sidley), George De Warfaz (Doctor Dubois), Henry Oscar (Doctor Willis), Harold Kasket (Mayor), Finlay Currie (McIver), Elwyn Brooke-Jones (Mr Tupp)