The Princess Comes Across

Director: William K. Howard, William Howard

Overview

In this film, an enterprising chorus girl from Brooklyn decides to go to Europe so she can make herself seem more exotic. In her new guise, the chorine is returning aboard a Big Apple-bound luxury liner when she encounters an old acquaintance who begins blackmailing her for money.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2014
UPC:	0025192180804
Original Release:	1936
Language:	English
Time:	1:17:00
Sales rank:	49,675

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Carole Lombard	Princess Olga (Wanda Nash)
Fred MacMurray	King Mantell
Douglass Dumbrille	Lorel,Lorel
Alison Skipworth	Lady Gertrude Allwyn
William Frawley	Benton
Porter Hall	Darcy
George Barbier	Capt. Nicholls
Lumsden Hare	Inspector Cragg
Sig Rumann	Steindorf
Mischa Auer	Morevitch
Tetsu Komai	Kawati
Bradley Page	The Stranger
George Sorel	Reporter
Jacques Vanaire	Reporter
Keith Daniels	Reporter
Jack Raymond	Reporter
Eddie Dunn	Reporter
Jack Hatfield	Reporter
Gaston Glass	Photographer
Nanette Lafayette	French Couple
Andre Cheron	French Couple
Gladden James	Ship's Official
Charles Fallon	French Baggage Official
Jean De Briac	French Baggage Official
Phil Tead	Jones, the American Newsreel Man
David Clyde	Assistant Purser
Milburn Stone	American Reporter
Bennie Bartlett	Ship's Bellhop
Dick Elliott	Ship's Surgeon
Creighton Hale	Officer
George Chandler	Film Man
Virginia Cabell	Woman
Monya Andre	Woman
Bess Stafford	Woman
Isabelle La Mal	Gossip
Eva Dennison	Gossip
Tom Herbert	Cabin Steward
Larry Steers	Assistant Purser
Pat Flaherty	Officer
Paul Kruger	Assistant Purser
Harry Hayden	Master of Ceremonies at Ship Variety Show
Edward Keane	Chief Purser
Phil Boutelje	Composer
Jack Scholl	Composer

Technical Credits

Don Hartman

Francis Martin

Frank Butler

Walter de Leon

Farciot Edouart	Special Effects
Arthur Hornblow Jr.	Producer
Dewey Wrigley	Special Effects
Don Hartman	Screenwriter
Francis Martin	Screenwriter
Frank Butler	Screenwriter
Walter de Leon	Screenwriter
Harold Lewis	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

It's not all smooth sailing in The Princess Comes Across, a rather bumpy murder mystery, but it's a genial enough way to pass a little time. Princess has a bright and promising premise, if not an overly original one, and it's the kind of premise that allows for a convenient comedy mystery setup -- a leading character with a secret, a self-contained setting from which there is no easy entry or exit, a time constraint, and a pleasant assortment of characters. With this kind of start, it's usually just a matter of connecting the dots. Princess connects the dots, alright, but it has to struggle a little bit to do so, which is perhaps the result of too many writers being engaged on a rather straightforward job. The viewer keeps getting the idea that one writer contributed something -- a bit of character business perhaps -- the development of which was aborted by another writer. None of this sinks Princess, but it does keep it from being more than just an average, if enjoyable, film. Certainly it can't be faulted for its cast, with Carole Lombard providing a delightfully haughty ice princess who's as entertaining as her brassy alter ego, a boyish Fred MacMurray playing a smoothy with rough corners, a delightful William Frawley, and a priceless Alison Skipworth. No classic, Princess is still amiably diverting.