The Princess Comes Across
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| Directed by | William K. Howard |
| Produced by | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Screenplay by |
Walter DeLeon Francis Martin Don Hartman Frank Butler Claude Binyon (uncredited) J.B. Priestley (uncredited) |
| Story by | Philip MacDonald (adaptation) |
| Based on |
A Halálkabin "Death Cab") (1934 novel) by Louis Lucien Rogger (Laszlo Aigner and Louis Acze) |
| Starring |
Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray |
| Music by |
Song "My Concertina": Phil Boutelje Jack Scholl |
| Cinematography | Ted Tetzlaff |
| Edited by | Paul Weatherwax |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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75-76 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Princess Comes Across is a 1936 mystery/comedy film directed by William K. Howard and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, the second of the four times they were paired together. Lombard, playing an actress from Brooklyn pretending to be a Swedish princess, does a "film-length takeoff" on MGM's Swedish star Greta Garbo. The film was based on the 1935 novel A Halálkabin by Louis Lucien Rogger, the pseudonym of Laszlo Aigner and Louis Acze.
Wanda Nash (Carole Lombard), an actress from Brooklyn, decides to masquerade as "Princess Olga" from Sweden in order to land a film contract with a big Hollywood studio. On board the liner Mammoth bound for New York, she runs into King Mantell (Fred MacMurray), a concertina-playing band leader with a criminal record in his past. Both are blackmailed by Robert M. Darcy (Porter Hall), and after Darcy is killed, they become two of the prime suspects for the murder, and must find the real killer before the five police detectives traveling on the ship can pin it on them.
The Princess Comes Across – which began with the working title Concertina – was initially intended to pair Lombard with George Raft for the third time, but Raft walked out when the studio assigned Ted Tetzlaff to photograph the film. Raft felt that Tetzlaff had made Lombard look better than himself in their earlier film, Rumba, and did not want it to happen again. With Raft out of the picture, and temporarily suspended for his actions, the studio re-teamed Lombard and MacMurray, who had made the screwball comedy Hands Across the Table together in 1935. They would be paired together twice more, in 1937's Swing High, Swing Low and True Confession, made in the same year.
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