The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. It was directed by Harold Young and produced by Alexander Korda. Based on the 1905 play
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Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction novels by British author Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a l
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)
…Raymond Massey. It was directed by Harold Young and produced by Alexander Korda. Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an 18th-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while…
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Fred Terry as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel in the 1905 West End theatre production
A scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which the eponymous hero leaves behind after his interventions