![]() ![]() ![]() In 1955, the film was broadcast on the Disneyland television show in two parts under the original book title When Knighthood Was in Flower. Directed by Ken Annakin with a British and French cast, it starred Richard Todd and Glynis Johns. When Knighthood Was in Flower Marion Davies (Actor), William Powell (Actor), Robert G. This version was adapted for the screen by American Lawrence Edward Watkin, but was filmed in the United Kingdom. In 1953, Major's book was remade by Walt Disney with the title The Sword and the Rose in the United States, but released with the original title in the United Kingdom. Directed by Robert Vignola and starring Hearst's mistress Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley, it was a big-budget silent film. The 1922 version is most remembered as the vehicle for Marion Davies financed by William Randolph Hearst and his company Cosmopolitan Productions. Griffith and directed by Wallace McCutcheon. When Knighthood Was in Flower or The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor The Kings Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty, King Henry VIII. BB6 - Has light edgewear, wrinkling, foxing, rubbing, previous owners name written, discoloration, and light shelf wear. Griffith, unknown player, and Harry SolterĪlthough no film copy of the film exists, the book is believed to have been adapted to a 1908 motion picture of the same name or under the title When Knights Were Bold by D. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1898. However, for political reasons, King Henry has arranged for her to wed King Louis XII of France and demands his sister put the House of Tudor first, threatening, " You will marry France and I will give you a wedding present – Charles Brandon's head!"Īdaptations 1908 adaptation Ĭast of When Knights Were Bold (1908), from left: Linda Arvidson, D. Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. It was sometimes known by the title When Knights Were Bold and should not be confused with the 1906 play When Knights Were Bold which also inspired several film adaptations. In 1901, playwright Paul Kester wrote the Broadway play and by 1907 When Knighthood Was in Flower was still being printed by the reprint publisher, Grosset & Dunlap, when the film rights were sold to Biograph Studios. ![]() The book spawned an entire industry of historical romantic novels and films. It was first published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company (then the Bowen-Merrill Company) in 1898 and proved an enormous success.Īccording to the New York Times, in its third year on the market the book was still selling so well that it was #9 on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1900. When Knighthood Was in Flower is the debut novel of American author Charles Major written under the pseudonym, Edwin Caskoden. ![]()
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