📽️ Holy Matrimony 1943 Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields

Описание: Holy Matrimony is a 1943 comedy film directed by John M. Stahl and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was based on the 1908 novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett. It stars Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields, with Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor, Alan Mowbray, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, and George Zucco in supporting roles.

Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Plot
Priam Farll is a famous English painter and recluse who has been living in seclusion somewhere in the tropics for 25 years with solely his valet, Henry Leek, for company. In 1905, Farll reluctantly travels to London to be knighted. However, upon their arrival, Leek becomes very ill. Farll summons Dr. Caswell, but Leek succumbs to double pneumonia and dies. The doctor mistakenly assumes it is Farll who has died, and the publicity-hating artist is only too glad to assume Leek's identity.

When the King himself shows up to pay his respects, Farll learns that "his" body is to be buried at Westminster Abbey. Trying to end the masquerade, he only manages to convince his sole relative, a cousin he has not seen since childhood, that he is a lunatic.

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