Thursday, April 20, 2017

Apr 19th  
Mary of Scotland**      

(US 1936)                            

Mary Stuart returns from France to resume her reign despite opposition from the clan leaders and her own cousin Elizabeth I.
Hollywoodized history imbued also with Ford's own Celtic bravado - not his most ideal of material, nor some of its stars', but all give it plenty of gusto.

Written by: Dudley Nichols, from the play by Maxwell Anderson.
Producer: Pandro S. Berman.
Director: John Ford.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge (as Elizabeth), Douglas Walton, John Carradine, Alan Mowbray, Ian Keith, Donald Crisp.
Photography: Joseph H. August.
Music: Nathaniel Shillkret.
Art Direction: Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark.

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