Queen's Life Again Theme for Film
PRODUCTION OPENS WITH SPECTACULAR SCENES [from our own correspondent] LONDON. Juno 8 "Sixty Glorious Years" started at Denham with two spectacular weddings ■ —the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the Chap«i Royal at St. James' Palace, and that of the Princess Itoyal and Prince Frederick of Prussia. Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook star as the Queen and her Consort, while Pamela Standish is "Vicky" —the Princess Royal—and Olaf Olsen is Prince Frederick of Prussia. 0. Aubrey Smith heads the supporting | cast. Herbert Wilcox is directing "Sixty Glorious Years," which is to be all in technicolour. It is based on new and authentic material from the Queen's life and has received even wider official facilities than its predecessor, "Victoria the Great." At the film ceremony the bridegroom fumbles with the ring, and makes his responses in a foreign accent which probably resembled Prince Albert's as much as he resembles the Prince Consort in looks. "Albert, wilt thou take this woman to be thy wedded wife. . .?" The Prince's "I will" is firm, but low. "Victoria, wilt thou have Albert to be thy wedded husband. . Here Miss Neagle's upward, lingering glance faithfully reproduces the young Queen's loving prido in her Consort, even if her prompt "I will" is not, as a contemporary account of the actual wedding records, "audible in all parts of the chapel." During the real wedding ceremony, it is related, Albert made a little blunder. This is shown in the filming. On the phrase: "With this ring 1 thee wed," Prince Albert takes the Queen's right hand, in accordance with Continental custom. He is about to put the ring on it when Victoria takes it from him and smilingly offers her left.
Tests will be made at . Warners within the next few days of Frederio March for the role of the Emperor in "Juarez and Maximilian." Paul Muni will be seen as Juarez. The picture is an adaptation of Bertita Jlardinjj'B "The Phantom Oro.wn A a
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)
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