When Knighthood Was in Flower

Opening with Marion Davies as Mary Tudor, a historical figure, heroine of a best-selling novel from which the film takes its name, Lyn Harding her brother Henry VIII, Forrest Stanley as dashing Brandon, Pedro de Cordoba as Buckingham, a lavish production from William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures, When Knighthood Was In Flower, 1922.

Princess Mary Tudor (Marion Davies) with aide Jane (Ruth Shepley) makes a prohibited visit to the soothsayer (Gustav Von Seyffertitz), hoping to hear she’ll be able to marry her beloved commoner Brandon (Forrest Stanley), who outside guards her from enemies led by Buckingham (Pedro De Cordoba), early in When Knighthood Was In Flower, 1922.

Indignant young Mary Tudor (Marion Davies) with her confidante Jane Bolingbroke (Ruth Shepley) complains about her brother Henry VIII (Lyn Harding) planning to marry her off, early in William Randolph Hearst’s expansive 1922 box-office hit, When Knighthood Was In Flower.

Biggest scene for William Powell in only his second picture, as new King Francis I of France, determined to take his father’s widow, the young Queen Mary, formerly Tudor, of France (Marion Davies), for his own, her friend Caskoden (Ernest Glendenning) aiding her escape, in When Knighthood Was In Flower, 1922.