The Vagabond King (1930)
- Starring:
- Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ludwig Berger
Synopsis of The Vagabond King
The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This theatrical piece inspired several films, as well as the Rudolph Friml/Brian Hooker musical play The Vagabond King (1927). Dennis King recreated his original London and Broadway stage role as Villon when Vagabond King was transferred to celluloid in 1930. The story is the familiar one of politically savvy Louis XVI (O.P. Heggie), hoping to enlist the French peasants in his upcoming battle against the Burgundians, appointing Francois Villon king of France for one day. Jeanette MacDonald is the high-born girl whom Villon pines for, while Lillian Roth is the street urchin who gives up her life to save her beloved poet. This early-talkie Vagabond King has scarcely been seen since the 1956 MGM remake, which starred the never-to-be-remembered opera luminary Oreste. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Vagabond King
- Dennis King - Francois Villon
- O.P. Heggie - Louis XI
- Warner Oland - Thibault
- Thomas Ricketts - The Astrologer
- Christian J. Frank - Executioner
- Cecile Cameron - Brunette
- Jeanette MacDonald - Katherine de Vaucelles
- Lillian Roth - Huguette
- Arthur Stone - Oliver the barber
- Lawford Davidson - Tristan
- Elda Voelkel - Girl
- Dorothy Davis - Brunette
- Director(s):
- Ludwig Berger
- Writer(s):
- Herman Mankiewicz
- Producer(s):
- Adolph Zukor
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