Diane (DVD) / Turner Entertainment ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Edwin H. Knopf ; directed by David Miller ; screen story and screenplay by Christopher Isherwood.
Title from container. Based on the story "Diane de poitiers" by John Erskine. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Lana Turner, Roger Moore, Pedro Armendariz.
Summary:
The story begins in the mid-1500s. A marriage between France's Prince Henri and Italy's Catherine de Medici has the potential to establish peace, so Diane is asked to tutor Henri in the ways of a courtier. Fencing and etiquette are part of the instruction; falling in love is not. Diane and Henri begin an affair that continues despite the royal union, and precipitates a Medici plot to wrest control of France.
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