Beau Brummell (film)

Beau Brummell
Original French film poster
Directed by	Curtis Bernhardt
Produced by	Sam Zimbalist
Written by	Karl Tunberg Clyde Fitch (play)
Starring	Stewart Granger Peter Ustinov Elizabeth Taylor Robert Morley
Music by	Richard Addinsell Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography	Oswald Morris
Edited by	Frank Clarke
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 1, 1954
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.8 million
Box office	$2.7 million

Beau Brummell is a 1954 historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch. The play was previously adapted as a silent film made in 1924 and starring John Barrymore as Beau Brummell, Mary Astor and Willard Louis as the Prince of Wales.

The music score was by Richard Addinsell with Miklós Rózsa. The film stars Stewart Granger as Beau Brummell, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Ustinov as the Prince of Wales.

The film ends with a deathbed reconciliation between a dying Brummell and the Prince, who as George IV is passing through Le Havre between his British and Hanoverian kingdoms. There is no record the king met Brummell again after the latter fled, in debt, to France in 1816 and in any case the scene is an anachronism; Beau Brummell died at Caen in 1840 having survived George by almost ten years.

Clyde Fitch's play was written in 1890 as a vehicle for Richard Mansfield. MGM bought the rights in early 1951 as a vehicle for Stewart Granger.