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Amber St. Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and downs, although in fact the one love of her life, Bruce Carlton, is never far from Ambers thoughts.
Amber St. Clair is 16 years old by the time the revolution of Oliver Cromwell ended and the House of Stuart has returned to the British throne in 1660. She is none too happy in the home of her Puritanical foster parents, and soon departs for London under the reluctant "patronage" of Bruce Carlton. Amber encounters a lot of patrons as she climbs to the top, lying on her back. Carlton goes off on some privateering business in the Colonies and Amber is swindled out of the money he left her. She goes to prison, has Carltons child there (which he doesnt know about until years later), and escapes prison with the aid of highwayman Black Jack Mallard, who soon has her working as a decoy and other odd jobs, using her non-monetary assets, for his gang. She is caught and arrested by Captain Rex Morgan who, for considerations duly delivered, places her in the theatre, where she enjoys the Kings protection. There, while pounding the boards, she first attracts the attention of King Charles II and also the Earl of Radcliffe. She marries the Earl and hits her peak when she becomes the Kings "favorite" ("Time Magazine" was fond of calling such relationships "great and good friends"). Carlton returns from Virginia with his bride and wants to adopt his and Ambers child, but also takes time out to kill Morgan in a duel, based on but not supported by Ambers long-vanished honor. Amber still wants Carlton and sets his wife up to be compromised, but this fails and she is "found out" and the King is a bit hacked about all the going-ons, and she is soon no longer his favorite. Carlton returns to America with their child, and Amber is reduced to accepting a supper invitation from the Kings equerry. But you cant keep a good girl down and, what the hey, tomorrows another day.
Linda Darnell
Amber St. Clair
Cornel Wilde
Bruce Carlton
Richard Greene
Lord Harry Almsbury
George Sanders
King Charles II
Glenn Langan
Capt. Rex Morgan
Richard Haydn
Earl of Radcliffe
Jessica Tandy
Nan Britton
Anne Revere
Mother Red Cap
John Russell
Black Jack Mallard
Jane Ball
Corinne Carlton
Robert Coote
Sir Thomas Dudley
Leo G. Carroll
Matt Goodgroome
Natalie Draper
Countess of Castlemaine
Margaret Wycherly
Mrs. Spong
Alma Kruger
Lady Redmond
Edmund Breon
Lord Redmond
Alan Napier
Landale
Margot Grahame
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