The Princess Comes Across
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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 |
Starring | Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray |
Distributed by | Paramount |
Release date(s) | 1936 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Released by Paramount in 1936, The Princess Comes Across is a film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.
[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
- William Frawley as Benton
- Alison Skipworth as Lady Gertrude Allwyn
- Douglass Dumbrille as Inspector Lorel
- Porter Hall as Robert M. Darcy
- George Barbier as Captain Nicholls
[edit] Production crew
- Director: William K. Howard
- Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
- Screenplay: Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Don Hartman Frank Butler
- Based on a Story by: Philip MacDonald
- Adapted from a Novel by: Louis Lucien Rogger