Jean-Pierre Aumont

Joan Hopkins

Cecil Parker

Margaretta Scott

Jack Livesey

Ronald Squire

Athene Seyler

Olwen Brookes

Judy Beaumont

Anthony Hawtrey

Hugh Griffith

Gerard Heinz

Joan Young

George Curzon

Betty Huntley-Wright

Tom Gill

Lydia Sherwood

Frances Waring

Amy Frank

Richard Shayne

Melissa Stribling

Claud Allister

Drusilla Wills

Judith Nelmes

Dorothy Hammond

Beatrice Rowe

Lennox Berkeley

Jack Hildyard

Nicholas Phipps

Reginald Long

Norman Ginsbury

Frank Hollands

Ivan Lassgallner

Frank Cross

George Claff

Elizabeth Haffenden

Philip Stockford

C.P. Norman

Margery Saunders

Charles Crafford

Arthur Southgate

Alberto Cavalcanti

History

The First Gentleman

Columbia Pictures

Columbia British Productions

United Kingdom

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Cecil Parker steals each scene in this flamboyant British Regency romance. He is the Prince Regent, elder son of King George III, whose daughter Princess Charlotte (Jean Hopkins) is enamoured of Prince Leopold (Jean-Pierre Aumont). Cavlacanti manages to keep the whole thing moving along in a jolly sort of fashion, with some jolly, period-style, scoring and some nice character parts from the likes of Margaretta Scott and the always reliable Hugh Griffith (this time as a Bishop!). A factual depiction? Well apart from the fact that the young couple really did exist, I can't say, but that doesn't really matter - it is an opportunity for a bit of a theatrical romp through early 19th Century British society that I found mildly entertaining - if perhaps twenty minutes too long.