When Knighthood Was in Flower
(1922) American
B&W : Twelve reels
Directed by Robert G. Vignola

Cast: Marion Davies [Mary Tudor], Lyn Harding [Henry VIII], William Norris [Louis XII], Forrest Stanley [Charles Brandon], Pedro De Cordoba [Duke of Buckingham], Ernest Glendenning [Sir Edwin Caskoden], William H. Powell (William Powell) [Duke Francis], Arthur Forrest [Cardinal Wolsey], Macey Harlam [Duc de Longueville], Johnny Dooley [Will Sommers], William Kent [the king’s tailor], Gustav von Seyffertitz [Grammont], Charles Gerrard [Sir Adam Judson], George Nash [an adventurer], Arthur Donaldson [Sir Henry Brandon], Theresa Maxwell Conover [Queen Catherine], Flora Finch [French lady-in-waiting], Ruth Shepley [Lady Jane Bolingbroke], Downing Clarke, Paul Panzer, Guy Coombes, Andrew Quirk

Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Luther Reed, from the novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major. Set design by Joseph Urban. Assistant director, Philip Carle. Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan and Harold Wenstrom. Original music score by William Frederick Peters, with additional music by Victor Herbert. / Released September 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Original USA prints featured some sequences in color by the Max Handschiegl hand color engraving process. Powell’s second film. [?] Sherwood-Best p. 196 lists the film as released 4 February 1923.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Royalty: Kings - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 23 March 2007.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 14; Brownlow-Parade p. 73; Davies-Times pp. 34-36, 37; Everson-American p. 175; Jewell-RKO p. 274; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 140; Quirk-Powell pp. 17, 37-38; Sherwood-Best pp. xvii, xviii, 196; Sweeney-Coming pp. 36, 42.