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