The Merry Monarch
King Pausole has 365 wives, one for each day. When his favorite daughter elopes with a stranded airman, he spends one wife's designated day searching, causing her protest and sparking her plans for pe…
The Merry Monarch
King Pausole has 365 wives, one for each day. When his favorite daughter elopes with a stranded airman, he spends one wife's designated day searching, causing her protest and sparking her plans for permanent power. A 1933 British Production based on the novel by Pierre Louys' "The Adventures of King Pausole", a fantasy based on a theme of King Solomon and his many wives. Good King Pausole (Emil Jannings) selects a wife for every day in the year, but the one played by 'Sidney Fox' protests when he spends her day searching for his favorite daughter who has eloped with a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. He comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
The Merry Monarch
Comedy,Fantasy,Romance
Film Details
King Pausole has 365 wives, one for each day. When his favorite daughter elopes with a stranded airman, he spends one wife's designated day searching, causing her protest and sparking her plans for permanent power. A 1933 British Production based on the novel by Pierre Louys' "The Adventures of King Pausole", a fantasy based on a theme of King Solomon and his many wives.
Good King Pausole (Emil Jannings) selects a wife for every day in the year, but the one played by 'Sidney Fox' protests when he spends her day searching for his favorite daughter who has eloped with a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. He comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>.