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The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 science - fiction satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios . It starred ___MASK38___ , Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by ___MASK18___ . The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Screenplay ) for Roger MacDougall , John Dighton and ___MASK18___ ( who was a cousin of Roger MacDougall ). Philip Christoph von Königsmarck or Philipp Christoph Königsmarck , ( Stade , 4 March 1665  2 July 1694 , Hanover ) was a Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier . He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea , Princess of Celle , the wife of Duke George Louis of Brunswick and Lunenburg , the heir presumptive of the Principality of Calenberg , later to become Elector of Hanover ( as George I Louis , 1708 ) and King of Great Britain ( as George I , 1714 ). Saraband for Dead Lovers ( released in the United States . as Saraband ) is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by ___MASK66___ and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood . It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson . Set in seventeenth century Hanover , it depicts the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea of Celle , the wife of the Elector of Hanover . Jim Morahan , William Kellner and Michael Relph were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration , Color . Joan Greenwood ( 4 March 1921  28 February 1987 ) was an English actress . Her husky voice , coupled with her slow , precise elocution , was her trademark . She is perhaps best remembered for her role as Sibella in " Kind Hearts and Coronets " ( 1949 ). Her other film appearances included " The Man in the White Suit " ( 1951 ), " The Importance of Being Earnest " ( 1952 ), " Stage Struck " ( 1958 ), " Tom Jones " ( 1963 ) and " Little Dorrit " ( 1987 ). ___MASK66___ ( born Basil Clive Dear ; 1 January 1911  23 March 1971 ) was an English film director . Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British black comedy film of 1949 starring Dennis Price , Joan Greenwood , Valerie Hobson , and ___MASK38___ . Guinness plays eight distinct characters . The plot is loosely based on the novel " Israel Rank : The Autobiography of a Criminal " ( 1907 ) by Roy Horniman , with the screenplay written by ___MASK99___ and ___MASK35___ and the film directed by Hamer . The title refers to a line in Tennyson ' s poem " Lady Clara Vere de Vere ": " Kind hearts are more than coronets , and simple faith than Norman blood ." The Principality of Calenberg was a dynastic division of the Welf duchy of Brunswick - Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1494 until 1705 , when Elector George I Louis , ___MASK12___ of Calenberg , inherited the Principality of Lüneburg to form the state of Hanover .