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    Dazed and Confused

    Nov 01, 2021 3 minutes
    Review by David Freeman

    There was never anyone quite like Sarah Churchill. She crossed over from the remarkable personal and political world of her father Winston Churchill to the equally remarkable world of twentieth-century Hollywood. At the apex of her acting career, she co-starred with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, a big-budget musical filmed in color. Released in 1951 in Britain as Wedding Bells, the story takes place in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip. That marriage lasted seventy-three years, six years longer than Sarah lived.

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