Monsieur Beaucaire

Monsieur Beaucaire

106 mins | Drama, Romance | Aug. 11, 1924

The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.

Monsieur Beaucaire

106 mins | Drama, Romance | Aug. 11, 1924

Monsieur Beaucaire
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Paramount
Original title Monsieur Beaucaire
Directors Sidney Olcott
Writers Forrest Halsey, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Booth Tarkington

Cast

Rudolph Valentino

as Duke de Chartres / Beaucaire

Bebe Daniels

as Princess Henriette

Lois Wilson

as Queen Marie of France

Doris Kenyon

as Lady Mary

Lowell Sherman

as King Louis XV of France

Paulette Duval

as Madame Pompadour

John Davidson

as Richelieu

Oswald Yorke

as Miropoix

Flora Finch

as Duchesse de Montmorency

Louis Waller

as François

Ian Maclaren

as Duke of Winterset

Frank Shannon

as Badger

Templar Powell

as Molyneux

H. Cooper Cliffe

as Beau Nash

Downing Clarke

as Lord Chesterfield

Yvonne Hughes

as Duchesse de Flauhault

Florence O'Denishawn

as Colombine

Harry Lee

as Voltaire

Brian Donlevy

as unknown