A Royal Scandal (film)
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| A Royal Scandal | |
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| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch Otto Preminger |
| Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Written by | Lajos Biró (play) Melchior Lengyel (play) Bruno Frank Edwin Justus Mayer |
| Starring | Tallulah Bankhead Charles Coburn Anne Baxter William Eythe |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | April 11, 1945 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 film about the love life of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter. and William Eythe. Ernst Lubitsch was the initial director, but fell ill and had to be replaced by Otto Preminger.[1] The film was based on the play Die zarin (The Czarina) by Lajos Biró and Melchior Lengyel. Ernst Lubitsch directed the rehearsals of this film. The script was prepared under Ernst Lubitsch. Ernst Lubitsch worked with Edwin Justus Mayer in the scripting process. Edwin Justus Mayer worked with Lubitsch before in To be or not to be (1942). A Royal Scandal is also remake of Ernst Lubitsch's silent film A Forbidden Paradise. So it is considered as "a Lubitsch film."
[edit] Cast
- Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine the Great
- Charles Coburn as Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch
- Anne Baxter as Countess Anna Jaschikoff
- William Eythe as Lieutenant Alexei Chernoff
- Vincent Price as Marquis de Fleury
- Mischa Auer as Captain Sukov
- Sig Ruman as General Michael Nicolai Vladimirovich Ronsky
- Vladimir Sokoloff as Malakoff
[edit] References
- ^ A Royal Scandal Plot Synopsis. All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.
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