When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922 film) When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922 film) When Knighthood Was in Flower is a 1922 silent historical film based on the novel "When Knighthood Was in Flower" by Charles Major and play by Paul Kester. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst (or his Cosmopolitan Productions) for his "live-in companion" Marion Davies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The director was veteran Robert G. Vignola, who helmed several of Davies' costume romances. This was William Powell's second film. The story was re-filmed in the sound era in 1953 as "The Sword and the Rose" by Ken Annakin. Exteriors were shot
The Flower Girl Czechoslovakia, and "Kwiaciarka" in Poland. In South Korea, the film was deemed as communist propaganda and a symbol of the enemy, and screening was banned; police were often mobilised when university students were found playing the film on campus, and the students were often accused of being sympathetic with the North. In 1998, the Supreme Court of South Korea ruled that "The Flower Girl" and six other North Korean films were "not favouring anti-ROK sentiments" in regards to national security laws. The film forged Hong Yong-hee into a film icon. She is depicted on the North Korean one won banknote,