A Royal Scandal (1945)
Saucy! Naughty! Delicious!
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
- Date of release
- 1945-03-26
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy, History, Drama
- Director
- Otto Preminger
Casting
- Tallulah Bankhead — Catherine the Great
- Charles Coburn — Nicolai Iiyitch
- Anne Baxter — Anna Jaschikoff
- William Eythe — Alexei Chernoff
- Vincent Price — Marquis de Fleury
- Mischa Auer — Captain Sukov
- Sig Ruman — General Ronsky
- Vladimir Sokoloff — Malakoff
- Mikhail Rasumny — Drunken General
- Paul Baratoff — Russian General (uncredited)
- Eugene Beday — Russian General (uncredited)
- Egon Brecher — Wassilikow (uncredited)
Interesting facts
A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Otto Preminger, produced by Ernst Lubitsch, about the lovelife of Russian empress Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter and William Eythe. The film was based on the play Die Zarin by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel.
Production
Ernst Lubitsch, who directed the silent film Forbidden Paradise upon which A Royal Scandal is based, was the first director hired, but when he fell ill, he was replaced by Otto Preminger. However, Lubitsch directed the rehearsals, and he worked with Edwin Justus Mayer in the scripting process.
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