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In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke, encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist.
19 Cast Members
Linda Purl
Emmaline Nevada 'Vada' Holtz
Shane Briant
Pierre
Timothy Dalton
Marquis de Guaita
Richard Johnson
Narrator
Joan Greenwood
Duchess of Grantham
Paul Lavers
Duke of Grantham
Kathleen Barrington
Nancy Sparling
Helena Carroll
Charity
Godfrey Quigley
M. Worth
John Franklyn
Verlaine
Jim Fitzgerald
Toulouse-Lautrec
Maureen Toal
La Goulue
Alain Christie
Arthur Rimbaud
Meryl Gourley
Mrs. Holtz
Peadar Lamb
Dr. Mirell
Brian de Salvo
Jacques
John Molloy
Taxil
Ann O'Dwyer
Singer
Eddie Golden
Peladan
