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She summoned him to join her as she approached her hot-tub and stripped naked ("Come in, and I'll show you everything you need to know").Hahn).The film, shot in Los Angeles, was significant for being one of the first to receive an Oscar nomination for Special Effects - a category recognized for the first time.In one of the film's most memorable scenes, she remains paralyzed and with a look of quiet fright behind the opened door, where she timidly and shyly views him - for the first time - through he glass.He discovers her left-behind handkerchief, views it longingly, and pockets it.Six months have passed by the time of this next scene.Marguerite has become the mistress/lover of her protector, the Baron de Varville.On his imminent departure to Russia, she fingers the string of his monocle and lightly explains how the doctors have warned her about traveling with him ("the trip will be too much for me") on his imminent departure ("I shall get tired, I shall get ill again")...He's a brute and a lout!...When I marry, I marry for love.Someone dashing and romantic, who will carry me off as a princess should be carried off!").And because of his own political ambitions, Ravenhurst was also opposed to the marital alliance, confirmed by one of the King's advisors Brockhurst who noted:Perhaps our friend Ravenhurst fears an alliance would put Griswold and not himself at the king's right hand!The Introduction of the Black Fox, Hubert Hawkins, and Jean:A group of loyalists faithful o the throne wanted to ensure that the rightful royal heir (a child with a purple pimpernel royal birthmark on its behind) was restored o the throne and put there instead of the usurper - King Roderick.