The Princess Comes Across
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| Directed by | William K. Howard |
| Produced by | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Written by | Walter DeLeon Francis Martin Don Hartman Philip MacDonald (story) Louis Lucien Rogger (novel) |
| Starring | Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 22, 1936 |
| Running time | 76 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Released by Paramount in 1936, The Princess Comes Across is a film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.
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[edit] Plot
A mixture of screwball comedy and murder mystery, a Swedish princess with a secret (Lombard) and a concertina-playing band leader with a past (MacMurray) board the liner Mammoth, bound for New York. An extortionist, an escaped killer, and a group of police detectives are also aboard. When corpses begin appearing, the characters must identify the killer ... a task which is complicated by their own deceptions.
[edit] Cast
- Carole Lombard as Wanda Nash / "Princess Olga"
- Fred MacMurray as King Mantell
- Douglass Dumbrille as Inspector Lorel
- Alison Skipworth as Lady Gertrude Allwyn
- George Barbier as Captain Nicholls
- William Frawley as Benton
- Porter Hall as Robert M. Darcy
- Lumsden Hare as Inspector Cragg
- Sig Ruman as Inspector Steindorf (as Sig Rumann)
- Mischa Auer as Inspector Morevitch
- Bradley Page as The Stranger
- Tetsu Komai as Inspector Kawati
[edit] Notes
Lombard does a "film-length takeoff on Greta Garbo, MGM's high-art transplant from Sweden" [1] in the film. Both the film, and Lombard herself, received good notices. Variety called her Garbo impersonation a "swell characterization and makes a highly diverting [comedy] contrast when the 'princess' lapses into her real self and unloads a line of Brooklynese." Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune praised Lombard's " assured and restrained portrayal - [which] is resourceful in exploiting its comic possibilities" The New York Post 's Thornton Delehanty called her Princess the " first role in which we have admired her since the early days of her picture career." Lombard herself liked the film because it "allowed her to do what she had first practiced in childhood days back in Indiana - mimic a figure from the silver screen."[2]
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