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
Secrecy (book) Secrecy (book) Secrecy is a 1998 novel and "New York Times" bestseller by Belva Plain. It tells the story of Charlotte, a little girl from the Dawes family whose adolescence life was shattered after she was raped by Ted, her uncle's stepson. Charlotte, a precocious and reticent young girl fell in love with her uncle's stepson, Ted, a charming and irresistible eighteen-year-old after a first encounter with him at her uncle's wedding. Meanwhile, Ted's mother Claudia was Charlotte's role model and confidant being that Charlotte's wasn't close to her mother who was epicurean and had a strained relationship with her