Beau brummell 1954 film biography

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• Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov and Elizabeth Taylor star in this biopic of the eponymous Regency era dandy, focusing on his dramatic rise in social status from relati

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  Beau Brummell (1954 film)

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  SIMON MATTHEWS on Curtis Bernhardt’s 1954 film Beau Brummell.

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  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 history. The Royal Philharmonic were on the soundtrack and Elizabeth Haffenden did the costumes. The more erudite in the audience would have noticed the lush opening titles proclaiming it was based ‘on the play written for Richard Mansfield by Clyde Fitch’. Which was slightly odd, even then. Both were r

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