A Royal Scandal (1945)
- Starring:
- Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, (more)
- Director(s):
- Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, (more)
Synopsis of A Royal Scandal
Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was Otto Preminger, who did his utmost to retain the "Lubitsch touch." Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchior Lengyel, the film dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, here played with blue-blooded bawdiness by Tallulah Bankhead. Catherine falls in love with a handsome young army officer (William Eythe), who turns out to be an insurrectionist planning her downfall. At the last moment, Catherine relents, allowing the officer to escape with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anne Baxter. A bit too cute for its own good, Royal Scandal has some choice moments: Most notable are Tallulah Bankhead's pained reaction upon being hailed as "The Mother of All Russias," and supporting actor Grady Sutton's southern-accented reference to the "U-ral Mountains". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of A Royal Scandal
- Tallulah Bankhead - Catherine II the Great
- Anne Baxter - Countess Anna Jaschikoff
- Vincent Price - Marquis de Fleury
- Sig Rumann - Gen. Ronsky
- Mikhail Rasumny - Drunken General
- Donald Douglas - Variatinsky
- Paul Baratoff
- Wilton Graff
- Ann Hunter - Ladies in Waiting
- Eugene Beday
- Sam Savitsky
- Michael Visaroff
- Leonid Snegoff
- Eugene Sigaloff - Russian General
- Fred Nurney
- Eva Gabor - Countess Demidow
- Harry Carter - Footman
- Charles Coburn - Chancellor Nicolai Ilyitch
- William Eythe - Lt. Alexei Chernoff
- Mischa Auer - Capt. Sukov
- Vladimir Sokoloff - Malakoff
- Grady Sutton - Boris
- Egon Brecher - Wassilikow
- Arno Frey - Captain
- Dick Ryan
- Nestor Eristoff
- Dina Smirnova
- Marek Windheim
- Henry Victor
- Vernon Walker
- Torben Meyer
- Friedrich Ledebur
- Renee Carson
- Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.
- Director(s):
- Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer(s):
- Edwin Justus Mayer, Bruno Frank
- Producer(s):
- Ernst Lubitsch
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