The film is considered lost as no reel is available anywhere.Ī restored version of the movie was premiered in 2010 on TCM. Sabatini’s novel, Bardelys the Magnificent, was adapted into a popular movie of the same name in 1926 under the direction of King Vidor and starring John Gilbert in the lead role.

When the sound era arrived in the world of filmmaking, three of Sabatini’s books were adapted into notable movies, starting from 1940 up to 1955. A few of his novels were made into movies in the silent era. He used to produce one book every year, approximately and maintained a huge level of popularity among the readers through several decades that followed. Author Sabatini had gone on to establish himself as a prolific writer of his time. The most popular book of that lot was the 1915 novel called The Sea Hawk. With the success of this 1922 book, Sabatini rushed to put his earlier novels into reprint. This historical romance novel is set at the time of the French Revolution.Īfter Scaramouche became an international bestseller, Sabatini followed it up with another internationally successful book called Captain Blood. It took Sabatini more than 20 years to achieve literary success with his 1921 book called Scaramouche. Sabatini married for the first time in 1905 when he met and married a Liverpool merchant’s daughter named Ruth Goad Dixon. During the 1890s, he wrote many stories and was able to publish his first novel in 1902. Following a short stint in the world of business, Sabatini became involved in the world of writing. When he started writing, he deliberately chose to write all his work in English because he believed that the best works are produced in English. Shortly after, Sabatini became proficient in English as well. Sabatini had become an expert in five languages by the time he reached the age of 17 and returned to live in England permanently. He used to live in England with his grandfather, attended school in Portugal, and lived in Switzerland during his teenage years. Sabatini was very young when he was exposed to multiple languages. Both of them worked as opera singers before they took up the job of teaching. His father was an Italian named Vincenzo Sabatini and his mother was an English citizen named Anna Trafford. Author Sabatini was born on April 29, 1875, in Iesi Italy. His writing career comprised of 34 full-length novels, 8 short story collections, 6 nonfiction books, several plays, and many uncollected short stories. He is particularly famous for writing the worldwide bestsellers such as Scaramouche, Bellario the Fortunate, The Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood.

Rafael Sabatini was a well known Italian-English author of romance, adventure, and literature & fiction novels. The Lovers of Yvonne / The Suitors of Yvonne

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