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1933Movie⏱️ 1h 10mPassed

ComedyMusicRomance

⭐ 6.7

IMDB Rating

375 votes

Beautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince.

Director

James Whale

Writers

Siegfried Geyer, F. Hugh Herbert, Ruth Cummings

Stars

Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther

Release Date

December 18, 1933

Language

English

Country

United States

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Wins

🎯 1

Nominations

💬 11

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Elissa Landi

as Marie

Paul Lukas

as Josef

Nils Asther

as Prince Alfred von Rommer

Dorothy Revier

as Countess von Rischenheim

Lawrence Grant

as Count von Rischenheim

Esther Ralston

as Baroness von Ballin

Warburton Gamble

as Baron von Ballin

Lois January

as Ann the Maid

Luis Alberni

as Train Porter

👤

André Cheron

as Croupier

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production

Universal Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

pre code filmgermanyphilanderingmonte carlo villacigarette smoking

🎯 Categories

FarceComedyMusicRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Whale channels Lubitsch

by davidmvining • 2025-09-26

7/10

"I should not be surprised at all that James Whale made an Ernst Lubitsch movie. Everyone was doing it. Everyone loved Lubitsch, and they all wanted to imitate him. What Whale made, from a script cowritten by Hans Kraly, Lubitsch's early writing partner, is a fun little ersatz Lubitsch film that misses the Lubitsch Touch (which Billy Wilder called the Super Joke with a specific structure) but has a similar feel. It's a small delight, not near the top of Lubitsch's work or even the best of the imitators like Wyler in The Good Fairy, but it's a fun trifle of a film anyway. Jo..."