Sanders would play The Merry Monarch in another and vastly inferior film called The King's Thief. Presiding over it all is a world weary and cynical George Sanders who plays Charles II. Along the way she uses many men, like highwayman John Russell, army captain Glenn Langan, nobleman Richard Haydn and even her own true love nobleman Cornel Wilde with whom she has a son out of wedlock. Darnell rises from Newgate Prison to the court of Charles II where she becomes one of Charles's numerous mistresses. In class conscious times as those were there were few venues for people to rise, even less if you were a woman. Linda Darnell got one of her best roles in her career as Amber, a high spirited and vivacious girl like Scarlett O'Hara, who finds true love, but sacrifices it for ambition. 20th Century Fox and Otto Preminger got the rights and did a fine job in recreating the United Kingdom of the 1660s. From his research material, Winsor became fascinated with the period and created her novel. For his honor's thesis he was writing about the Stuart Restoration. Kathleen Winsor when she wrote the novel was married to her first husband a football player who was a history student. But also the book itself was a blockbuster best seller in the Forties as Gone With the Wind was in the previous decade and brought in a built-in audience. You can look at that in two ways, the interaction between Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde and compare it to Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. Another reviewer compared it to Gone With the Wind. Clair's sexual escapades during Restoration Great Britain would have been a far better film. Without The Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency inspecting all the product that came from Hollywood, Amber St. If Forever Amber were being made today the results would have been quite different.

Forever amber 1944