When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
When Knighthood Was in Flower is a 1922 silent historical film based on the novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major and play by Paul Kester. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst (or his Cosmopolitan Productions) for his 'live-in companion' Marion Davies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The director was veteran Robert G. Vignola who helmed several of Davies costume romances. This was William Powell's second film. The story was re-filmed in the sound era in 1953 as The Sword and the Rose by Ken Annakin.
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Cast:
- Black Diamond the Horse
- Betty Brown
- Downing Clarke
- Guy Coombs
- Marion Davies
- Pedro de Cordoba
- Arthur Donaldson
- Johnny Dooley
- Flora Finch
- Arthur Forrest
- Charles K. Gerrard
- Ernest Glendinning
- Lyn Harding
- Macey Harlam
- Winchester the Horse
- William Kent
- Teresa Maxwell-Conover
- George Nash
- William Norris
- Paul Panzer
- William Powell
- Andrew Quirk
- Ruth Shepley
- Mortimer Snow -
- Forrest Stanley
- Gustav von Seyffertitz