A Royal Scandal (film)

Infobox Film
name = A Royal Scandal


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director = Ernst Lubitsch
Otto Preminger
producer = Ernst Lubitsch
writer = Lajos Biró (play)
Melchior Lengyel (play)
Bruno Frank
Edwin Justus Mayer
starring = Tallulah Bankhead
Charles Coburn
Anne Baxter
William Eythe
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distributor = Twentieth Century Fox
released = 11 April 1945
runtime = 94 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:108478
imdb_id = 0038040

"A Royal Scandal", also known as "Czarina", is a 1945 film about the love life of Russian 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.

Ernst Lubitsch was the initial director, but fell ill and had to be replaced by Otto Preminger. [cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:108478 |title=A Royal Scandal Plot Synopsis |publisher=Allmovie |accessdate=2008-04-24] 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".Fact|date=July 2008

Cast

*Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine the Great
*Charles Coburn as Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch
*Anne Baxter as Countess Anna Jaschikoff
*William Eythe as Lieutenant Alexei Chernoff
*Vincent Price as Marquis de Fleury
*Mischa Auer as Captain Sukov
*Sig Ruman as General Michael Nicolai Vladimirovich Ronsky
*Vladimir Sokoloff as Malakoff

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*tcmdb title|id=88721|title=A Royal Scandal