Monsieur Beaucaire 1946

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Monsieur Beaucaire ★★★ 1946

Entertaining Hope vehicle that casts him as a barber impersonating a French nobleman in the court of Louis XV. He's set to wed a Spanish princess in order to prevent a full-scale war from taking place. However, he really wants to marry social-climber chambermaid Caulfield. Director Marshall was at his best here. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. 93m/B VHS, DVD . Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut, Reginald Owen, Constance Collier; D: George Marshall; W: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama; C: Lionel Lindon.

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