Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

A Royal Command to Love!

In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.

Date of release
1945-11-11
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Richard Thorpe

Casting

Interesting facts

Her Highness and the Bellboy is a 1945 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson and Rags Ragland. Written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman, the film is about a beautiful European princess who travels to New York City to find the newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. At her posh New York hotel, she is mistaken for a maid by a kind-hearted bellboy. Charmed by his confusion, the princess insists that he become her personal attendant, unaware that he has fallen in love with her. Her Highness and the Bellboy was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States on July 11, 1945.

Production notes

Production Dates: 11 Dec 1944 to late Jan 1945 and retakes from 7 Feb to mid-Feb 1945

MGM rushed production due to Hedy Lamarr's "impending motherhood".

Hedy Lamarr completed her MGM contract when she finished filming Her Highness and the Bellboy.

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