{"id":3276,"date":"2024-06-13T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:34:46","slug":"kind-hearts-and-coronets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/13\/kind-hearts-and-coronets\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Hearts and Coronets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/kind-hearts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3277\" width=\"377\" height=\"282\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>13 June 2024 marks the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the UK release of the sublime (and the Ed\u2019s favourite film) Ealing comedy &#8216;Kind Hearts and Coronets\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directed by Robert Hamer (born in Kidderminster) and featuring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood, with a delightful cameo from Miles Malleson, the story (based loosely on Israel Rank\u2019s The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907)) tells of Louis D&#8217;Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class and Louis&#8217; vengeful journey to murder the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the dukedom.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/kind-hearts-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An absolute joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 June 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the UK release of the sublime (and the Ed\u2019s favourite film) Ealing comedy &#8216;Kind Hearts and Coronets\u2019. Directed by Robert Hamer (born in Kidderminster) and featuring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood, with a delightful cameo from Miles Malleson, the story (based loosely on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/13\/kind-hearts-and-coronets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kind Hearts and Coronets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}