A Royal Scandal (film)

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A Royal Scandal
A Royal Scandal.jpg
theatrical poster
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Otto Preminger
Produced by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Play:
Lajos Biró
Melchior Lengyel
Screenplay:
Bruno Frank
Edwin Justus Mayer
Starring Tallulah Bankhead
Charles Coburn
Anne Baxter
William Eythe
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s) 11 April 1945
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 Biró and Melchior Lengyel.

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Cast

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 A Forbidden Paradise. All of the scenes were developed under Lubitsch. So it is considered as a "Lubitsch film".citation needed

Notes

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

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