"The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing."
Sacha Guitry
as Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III
Jacqueline Delubac
as Françoise Martin / Marie Stuart / Joséphine de Beauharnais
Lyn Harding
as John Russell / Henry VIII
Renée Saint-Cyr
as Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne
Enrico Glori
as Signor Ribaldi
Ernete Zacconi
as Le pape Clement VII
Barbara Shaw
as Anne Boleyn
Marguerite Moreno
as Catherine de Medicis (1860) / L'impératrice Eugénie âgée (1914)
Arletty
as La reine abyssine
Marcel Dalio
as Le prêtre
Claude Dauphin
as Le prisonnier Italien en Abyssinie
Robert Seller
as Le prisonnier Français en Abyssinie
Ponzio
as Un ouvrier chantant
Andrews Engelmann
as James - le voleur
Yvette Pienne
as La reine Marie Tudor / La reine Elizabeth I
Raimu
as L'industriel du midi
Lisette Lanvin
as La petite femme / La reine Victoria jeune
Pierre Juvenet
as L'expert
Henri Crémieux
as Le commissaire-priseur
Aimé Simon-Girard
as Le roi Henry IV
Germaine Aussey
as Gabrielle d'Estrées
Simone Renant
as Madame Du Barry
Damia
as Une femme du peuple
Di Mazzei
as Un sans-culotte
Jean-Louis Barrault
as Bonaparte jeune
Robert Pizani
as Monsieur de Talleyrand
Émile Drain
as L'empereur Napoléon Ier (1815)
Huguette Duflos
as La reine Hortense
Raymonde Allain
as L'impératrice Eugénie (1865)
Violet Farebrother
as Une vieille lady
Rosine Deréan
as La jeune fille / Catherine d'Aragon
Marie Leconte
as La femme éplorée
Pierre Magnier
as Le vieux seigneur Français
Cécile Sorel
as La Française du Grand Siècle
Lilie Granval
as La soprano
Jean Coquelin
as Le vieux bourgeois
Gaston Dubosc
as Le grand-duc
Pauline Carton
as La femme de chambre
Georges Fels
as
Humberto Catalano
as Spanelli (uncredited)
Christian-Jaque
Screenplay
Director
Serge Sandberg
Producer
Jean Françaix
Original Music Composer
William Barache
Editor
Myriam Borsoutsky
Jules Kruger
Director of Photography
