Kind Hearts and Coronets
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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters
Original British film poster by James Fitton
Alec Guinness in 1972
Scene showing Alec Guinness in six of the roles he portrayed (second from the left is Valerie Hobson as the recently widowed Edith). The cinematographer Douglas Slocombe masked the lens and filmed over several days to achieve the shot.
Leeds Castle, which served as the ancestral home of the D'Ascoyne family.
Joan Greenwood
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Joan Mary Waller Greenwood Mesritz was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, a
Kind Hearts and Coronets
…Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal…
Greenwood in Moonfleet (1955)