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17 unusual facts about the Scarlet Pimpernel


Anagallis arvensis

It is most well known for being the emblem of the fictional hero The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Hector King

Between 2007 and 2008 alone, King had four of his adaptations staged, all in Monterrey, Mexico: the Mexican premieres of Sweeney Todd, Footloose and Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour and the new Mexican productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel and RENT.

James Bohanek

James Bohanek is a former actor who debuted on Broadway as Armand in The Scarlet Pimpernel.

John Philip Falter

Other favorite book projects included Houghton-Mifflin's Mark Twain series and illustrations for The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Katsuji Matsumoto

Printed as an over-sized pamphlet with a sturdy cardboard cover, and included as a premium in the April issue of Shōjo no tomo, The Mysterious Clover was a variation on The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro.

Khosro Roozbeh

Red Pimpernel, who in a series of disguises walked into and out of innumerable baited police traps with the swashbuckling courage that made him a figure of legendary proportions, both to the Party, the security authorities, and the general public.

Laughing Cavalier

In the Scarlet Pimpernel adventure series by Emma Orczy, The Laughing Cavalier is a prequel recounting the story of the supposed subject of the painting, who is an ancestor of her main hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney.

Lerici

Hungarian author Baroness Emmuska Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel had a villa built in the hills above Lerici, near the locality of Bellavista, and called it La Padula.

Marine Jahan

Jahan also played the role of Madame St. Cyr in the 1997 Broadway production of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Nob and Nobility

Edmund convinces the Prince that he is The Scarlet Pimpernel, and collects an "enormous postal order" intended for the hero.

Pimpinela Escarlata

His ring name is Spanish for "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and is taken from the fictional character of the same name.

Schenectady Light Opera Company

:*2009 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Assassins, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir James Hutchison, 1st Baronet

He distinguished himself as the principal British liaison officer with the French Resistance during the Second World War in which he needed plastic surgery to disguise his appearance from the Germans; he was nicknamed the "Pimpernel of the Maquis".

So effective was Hutchison that he was nicknamed the "Pimpernel of the Maquis"; he was not captured during four months in France, and at the end of the war he received the Distinguished Service Order from the British.

Sir Percy

Sir Percy was named after Sir Percy Blakeney, the hero of the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Telerecording

There is some evidence to suggest that the BBC experimented with filming the output of the television monitor before the television service was placed on hiatus in 1939 - BBC executive Cecil Madden later recalled filming a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel in this way, only for film director Alexander Korda to order the burning of the negative as he owned the film rights to the book, which he felt had been infringed.

Tricoteuse

In the first chapter of Baroness Emma Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel the Pimpernel disguises himself as a cart-driving tricoteuse in order to smuggle aristocrats out of Paris.


Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

In January 1793, Citizen Campon, the Chief Commissary of Police in Limours, is still reeling following the rescue of half a dozen aristos from the local comissariat by the Scarlet Pimpernel and his league.

Lowri Shone

Lowri has also performed in various London Children's Ballet (LCB) productions such as The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden and Rumpelstiltskin, as well as performing the role of Petrova in LCB's 2010 production of Ballet Shoes.

Mabel Terry–Lewis

Her film appearances include Love Maggy (1921), Shirley (1922), Caste (1930), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Third Clue (1934), Dishonour Bright (1936), The Squeaker (1937), Jamaica Inn (1939), The Adventures of Tartu (1943) and They Came to a City (1945).

Nan Knighton

Collaborating with composer Frank Wildhorn, she wrote the libretto and lyrics of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997) and Camille Claudel (2003), as well as additional lyrics for Rudolf (2006).