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The Princess Comes Across (1936)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1936 Wide

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1936 Wide

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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the silent-movie era, in which a crafty San Francisco stenographer hoodwinked the Hollywood elite into believing that she was a Spanish princess. Carole Lombard stars as an alluring Swedish beauty who travels under the name of Princess Olga. Everyone whom she meets en route to America on the steamship Mammoth bows and scrapes to the Princess, while Hollywood anxiously awaits her arrival

Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Comedy

Directed By: William K. Howard

Written By: Frank Butler, Walter DeLeon

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1936 Wide

On DVD: Sep 12, 1995

Paramount Pictures

Cast

Carole Lombard
Princess Olga
Fred MacMurray
King Mantell
Douglas Dumbrille
Lorel
Alison Skipworth
Lady Gertrude Allwyn
William Frawley
Benton
Porter Hall
Darcy
George Barbier
Capt. Nicholls
Lumsden Hare
Inspector Cragg
Sig Rumann
Steindorf
Tetsu Komai
Kawati
Mischa Auer
Morevitch
Bradley Page
The Stranger
David Clyde
Assistant Purser
Edward Keane
Chief Purser
Tom Herbert
Cabin Steward
Monya Andre
Woman
Bennie Bartlett
Ship's Bellhop
George Chandler
Film Man
Andre Cheron
French Couple
Jean De Briac
French Baggage Official
Eva Dennison
Gossip
Eddie Dunn
Reporter
Dick Elliott
Ship's Surgeon
Charles Fallon
French Baggage Official
Pat Flaherty
Officer
Gaston Glass
Photographer
Creighton Hale
Officer
Harry Hayden
Master of Ceremonies at...
Gladden James
Ship's Official
Paul Kruger
Assistant purser
Nanette Lafayette
Woman in French Couple
George Sorel
Reporter
Larry Steers
Assistant purser
Milburn Stone
American Reporter
Phil Tead
Jones the American News...
Jack Hatfield
Reporter
Jacques Vanaire
Reporter
Keith Daniels
Reporter
Isabelle La Mal
Bess Stafford
Woman
Jack Raymond
Reporter
Douglass Dumbrille

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Charming whimsy with a bit of mystery on the side. Carole and Fred spark off each other very well, with Alison Skipworth and William Frawley adding zip as their companions.

December 13, 2011

jay nixon

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A more than boring film, it astounds me how lovers of 30's films defend them so. The Princess Comes Across is a hopelessly trivial and boring film on an ocean liner. The setting alone is boring let alone the murder plot that pretends to engross us. Carol Lombard might be the diva of film stars back in the day, but

March 28, 2010

rick blaine

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