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The Princess Comes Across is a american film of genre Thriller directed by William K. Howard released in USA on 22 may 1936 with Carole Lombard
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 may 1936
Length 1h16
Directed by William K. Howard
OriginUSA
Themes Serial killer films
Rating66%
The Princess Comes Across is a 1936 mystery/comedy film directed by William K. Howard and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, the second of the four times they were paired together. Lombard, playing an actress from Brooklyn pretending to be a Swedish princess, does a "film-length takeoff" on MGM's Swedish star Greta Garbo.
Synopsis
Wanda Nash (Carole Lombard), an actress from Brooklyn, decides to masquerade as "Princess Olga" from Sweden in order to land a film contract with a big Hollywood studio. On board the liner Mammoth bound for New York, she runs into King Mantell (Fred MacMurray), a concertina-playing band leader with a criminal record in his past. Both are blackmailed by Robert M. Darcy (Porter Hall), and after Darcy is killed, they become two of the prime suspects for the murder, and must find the real killer before the five police detectives traveling on the ship can pin it on them.Actors
Carole Lombard
(Princess Olga / Wanda Nash)
Fred MacMurray
(King Mantell)
George Barbier
(Captain Nicholls)
Douglass Dumbrille
(Lorel)
William Frawley
(Benton)
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