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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905.It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.
The A. G. Macdonell story of "Pimpernel" Smith took the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy into modern times. Having played the leading role in the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Howard took on the updated project as the first film he directed and co-produced. [6] [Note 2] Production on "Pimpernel" Smith began in early ...
Elisabeth Bergner, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Flora Robson: The Scarlet Pimpernel [3] [2] Adventure: Harold Young: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey: The Scoop [3] Crime: Maclean Rogers: Anne Grey, Tom Helmore, Wally Patch: The Scotland Yard Mystery [31] Thomas Bentley: Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while ...
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First published in 1932, A Child of the Revolution is a book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series written by Baroness Orczy. [2] [3] It is chronologically the last book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series. [4] It is the only Scarlet Pimpernel novel which was not translated into French. [5]
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy . The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from the original Scarlet Pimpernel book.
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is the second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League. Written in 1929 the stories, which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order.