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Director
  
Alberto Cavalcanti

Music director
  
Lennox Berkeley

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, History

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

Writer
  
Reginald Long
,
Nicholas Phipps

Release date
  
March 1948 (UK)

Initial release
  
March 1948 (United Kingdom)

Screenplay
  
Nicholas Phipps, Reginald Long

Cast
  
Joan Hopkins
(Princess Charlotte),
Jean-Pierre Aumont
(Prince Leopold),
Cecil Parker
(The Prince Regent),
Margaretta Scott
(Lady Hartford),
Gerard Heinz
(Dr Stockmar)

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The First Gentleman is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins and Cecil Parker. It portrays the relationships and marriage of George, Prince Regent and his tense dealings with other members of his family such as his only child Princess Charlotte and his younger brother Frederick, Duke of York. It was also released as Affairs of a Rogue.The film is based on a play, "The First Gentleman" by Norman Ginsbury, which was staged in London in 1945, starring Robert Morley as the Prince Regent and Wendy Hiller as Princess Charlotte.

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Plot

The film traces the reign of the Prince Regent following the Napoleonic wars, and the Prince's attempts to marry off his unruly daughter Charlotte to a number of acceptable nobles, but to no avail because she falls for Leopold, a poverty-stricken German prince. Charlotte's marriage to Leopold is a happy one until the birth of their child.

Cast

  • Jean-Pierre Aumont - Prince Leopold
  • Joan Hopkins - Princess Charlotte
  • Cecil Parker - Prince Regent
  • Margaretta Scott - Lady Hartford, mistress of the Regent
  • Jack Livesey - Edward, one of the Regent's younger brothers
  • Ronald Squire - Brougham, advisor to the Regent's estranged wife
  • Athene Seyler - Miss Knight, friend of the Regent
  • Anthony Hawtrey - Sir Richard Croft, Princess Charlotte's physician
  • Hugh Griffith - Bishop of Salisbury
  • Gerard Heinz - Doctor Stockmar
  • George Curzon - Duke of York, one of the Regent's younger brothers
  • Betty Huntley-Wright - Princess Elizabeth, one of the Regent's younger sisters
  • Tom Gill - Prince William, one of the Regent's younger brothers
  • Lydia Sherwood - Princess Augusta, one of the Regent's younger sisters
  • Frances Waring - Queen Charlotte, the Regent's mother

    • Critical reception

  • TV Guide called it "a poorly mounted costume drama with a complicated script that moves at a snail's pace."
  • Allmovie wrote, "swamped in period costumes and decor, Affairs of a Rogue is consistently good to look at, even when the plotline begins to drag."

    • References

    The First Gentleman Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The First Gentleman IMDb


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