Charles Coburn
Rudyard Morley
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My Kingdom for a Cook: Directed by Richard Wallace. With Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, Bill Carter, Isobel Elsom. Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a goodwill lecture tour of the United States.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Richard Wallace
- 1943-10-27
My Kingdom for a Cook He was nearly sixty before he made his first feature film but Georgia-born character actor Charles Coburn swiftly made up for lost time. With his trademark monocle (he really needed it!) and omnipresent cigar, Coburn was a natural to fill the wingtips of sundry crusty old codgers, invariably moneyed, inescapably sardonic ...
My Kingdom for a Cook is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Richard Wallace, which stars Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, and Bill Carter. Plot [ edit ] A visiting British emissary on a goodwill tour of the United States struggles to replace his long-standing cook when he is unable to join him on the journey.
My Kingdom for a Cook (1943) Movie Info Synopsis While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
- Comedy
- Charles Coburn
- Richard Wallace
Summaries. Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a goodwill lecture tour of the United States. His English gourmet cook is unable to accompany him, and this upsets him more than a little bit. He hires a cook of eighteen years' service to a New England socialite. This act of diplomatic rudeness gives rise ...
Here's yet another comedy about the wartime servant shortage, with traces of The Man Who Came to Dinner thrown into the mixture. When his cook is forced to stay behind in England, Rudyard Morley (Charles Coburn), a noted author who bears more than a passing resemblance to George Bernard Shaw, searches for a new cook in rural Massachussetts.
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