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Overview

User Rating:
6.2/10   101 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Charles Bennett (writer)
Jacques Deval (writer)
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Release Date:
29 December 1939 (USA) more
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Plot:
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Reviews:
Nelson Eddy proves he can carry a film more (4 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nelson Eddy ... Prince Peter Karagin, aka Peter Teranda
Ilona Massey ... Lydia Pavlovna Marakova
Charles Ruggles ... Nicki Popoff (as Charlie Ruggles)
Frank Morgan ... Ivan Danchenoff
Lionel Atwill ... Prof. Marakov
C. Aubrey Smith ... Gen. Karagin
Joyce Compton ... Masha (Lydia's maid)
Dalies Frantz ... Dimitri Marakov
Walter Woolf King ... Capt. Michael Sibirsky
Phillip Terry ... Lt. Smirnoff
Frederick Worlock ... Ramensky
Abner Biberman ... Leo Proplinski
Arthur W. Cernitz ... Capt. Sergei Pavloff
Roland Varno ... Lt. Nikitin
George Tobias ... Slaski (bartender)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Featured in From the Ends of the Earth (1939) more
Soundtrack:
Scheherezade more

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9 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Nelson Eddy proves he can carry a film, 17 June 2003
10/10
Author: kinder-1 from United States

Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey Make a handsome couple in a gorgeous setting. Ilona portrays an anarchist in pre WW1 Russia who falls in love with a Russian prince, played with strength and humor by Nelson Eddy. Their duets are pleasing, and Nelson sings magnificently in Russian, German, French and English. The black and white photography captures the period and costumes well, and the two stars are so strikingly similar in looks, they could easily be siblings. Nelson demonstrates once again, what a loss he was to opera, but how fortunate to have him on film and hear that magnificent baritone.

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