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Writers:
Lajos Biró (story)
Bruno Frank (writer)
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Release Date:
11 April 1945 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Saucy! Naughty! Delicious!
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Tallulah Bankhead ... Catherine the Great
Charles Coburn ... Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch

Anne Baxter ... Countess Anna Jaschikoff
William Eythe ... Lt. Alexei Chernoff

Vincent Price ... Marquis de Fleury
Mischa Auer ... Capt. Sukov
Sig Ruman ... Gen. Ronsky
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Malakoff
Mikhail Rasumny ... Drunken general
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Egon Brecher ... Wassilikow
Donald Douglas ... Variatinsky (as Don Douglas)
Eva Gabor ... Countess Demidow
Grady Sutton ... Boris
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Czarina (UK)
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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)_. more
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Referenced in Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) more

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time marches on, 27 June 2009
2/10
Author: hendersonhall from United States

When A Royal Scandal first came out, I probably would have considered it saucy and sophisticated and very funny. Times have changed. It's now old-fashioned, spiceless sauce, unsophisticated, and not at all funny. I watched 45 minutes without laughing and then gave up. I don't know at what point Preminger took over for Lubitch when he died and perhaps Lubitch might have wound up making it sophisticated and comic even for today (as he did others, notably Trouble in Paradise); but Preminger was the wrong choice to complete this one. Tallulah, who sparkled on Broadway (when young, I saw her in Private Lives), was so-what? here. She read her lines well enough, but the dialogue itself was mediocre and predictable. Much blame must go to writer Edwin Justus Mayer (of the delighful Midnight), who faltered here.

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