A Royal Scandal (film)

A Royal Scandal
theatrical poster
Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch Otto Preminger
Produced by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	Play: Lajos Bíró Melchior Lengyel Screenplay: Bruno Frank Edwin Justus Mayer
Starring	Tallulah Bankhead Charles Coburn Anne Baxter William Eythe
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release dates	April 11, 1945 (1945-04-11)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 film about the love life of Russian Empress (Czarina) Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, and William Eythe. The film was based on the play Die Zarin (The Czarina) by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel.

Cast

Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine the Great
Charles Coburn as Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch
Anne Baxter as Countess Anna Jaschikoff
William Eythe as Lieutenant/Captain/Major/General/Private 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

Production

Ernst Lubitsch was the initial director, but fell ill and had to be replaced by Otto Preminger.^[1] However, Lubitsch directed the rehearsals, and he worked with Edwin Justus Mayer in the scripting process. A Royal Scandal is a remake of Lubitsch's silent film Forbidden Paradise. All of the scenes were developed under Lubitsch. So it is considered a "Lubitsch film".

Notes

↑ "A Royal Scandal Plot Synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-04-24.

External links

A Royal Scandal at the Internet Movie Database
A Royal Scandal at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Feature films	Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916) When Four Do the Same (1917) Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) Carmen (1918) Intoxication (1919) The Doll (1919) My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) The Oyster Princess (1919) Meyer from Berlin (1919) Madame DuBarry (1919) Sumurun (1920) Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920) Anna Boleyn (1920) The Wild Cat (1921) The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) The Flame (1923) Rosita (1923) The Marriage Circle (1924) Three Women (1924) Forbidden Paradise (1924) Kiss Me Again (1925) Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) So This Is Paris (1926) The Honeymoon Express (1926) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) The Patriot (1928) Eternal Love (1929) The Love Parade (1929) Monte Carlo (1930) Paramount on Parade (co-director) (1930) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Broken Lullaby (1932) One Hour with You (1932) Trouble in Paradise (1932) Design for Living (1933) The Merry Widow (1934) Angel (1937) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Ninotchka (1939) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) That Uncertain Feeling (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Heaven Can Wait (1943) A Royal Scandal (1945) Cluny Brown (1946) That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Short films	I Don't Want to Be a Man Kohlhiesels Töchter If I Had a Million (segment "The Clerk")

Films directed by Otto Preminger

Die große Liebe (1931)
Under Your Spell (1936)
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
Kidnapped (1938)
Margin for Error (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Laura (1944)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Centennial Summer (1946)
Forever Amber (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
The Fan (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The 13th Letter (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
The Moon Is Blue (1953) / Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Saint Joan (1957)
Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Exodus (1960)
Advise & Consent (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Skidoo (1968)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
Such Good Friends (1971)
Rosebud (1975)
The Human Factor (1979)

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