The Princess Comes Across
- Carole Lombard: Princess Olga
- Fred MacMurray: Joe King Mantell
- Douglass Dumbrille: Inspector Lorel
- Alison Skipworth: Lady Gertrude Allwyn
- George Barbier: Captain Nicholls
- William Frawley: Benton
- Porter Hall: Robert M. Darcy
- Lumsden Hare: Inspector Cragg
- Sig Ruman: Inspector stone village
- Mischa Auer: Inspector Morevitch
- Tetsu Komai: Inspector Kawati
A Princess for America (Original Title: The Princess Comes Across) is a screwball comedy with Carole Lombard and directed by William K. Howard from the year 1936.
Action
The ocean liner Mammoth leaves Le Havre bound for New York. Is the Princess Olga of Sweden and Gertie, her girls on board. In reality, Olga is the spent actress Wanda Nash from Brooklyn, purporting to be the princess to come as free across the Atlantic, and perhaps to make a career in Hollywood. During the crossing, Olga hits Joe King Mantell, a renowned clarinetist and falls in love with the young man. Parallel learns the captain that an escaped murderer on board, and at least five police officers from different countries try to make it nailed down. The implications of run its course and made more complicated by a corpse that keeps coming up and through the intervention of a blackmailer who threatens virtually everyone involved with revelations. In the end, everything dissolves and Wanda and Joe find their happiness.
Background
Carole Lombard was thanks to performances in love in no time and my husband Godfrey risen to become a popular actress of screwball comedies. A Prinzession for America is a typical example of this genre in the mid- 1930s, enjoyed great popularity. The plot mixes based on The Thin Man and The Ex Mrs. Bredford romance with a criminal history and endless tangles, which are not resolved until just before the end. The story is told rapidly and includes plenty of surprising twists and new entanglements. Incorrect nobles were also a popular part of the comedies of the time, so Ginger Rogers played in Roberta a false Russian countess, Sylvia Sidney was in a double role 30 Day Princess and Joan Crawford starred in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney a well -born lady of English society.
Carole Lombard interpreted their princess Olga as something crude Greta Garbo parody, complete with Garbo stretched speech and mysterious eyes surcharge.
Reviews
The New York Times was not particularly fond of the film and of Lombard and found harsh words:
"With the Subiltität a jackhammer is the more telling in Paramount's new film as a poor story about an ambitious girl from Brooklyn who claims to be a princess and wants to do so career in Hollywood. Decorated with some murders on board, a romance with a friendly clarinet and the usual gold - and - ivory - scenes of Paramout remains " A Princess for America," but only an average - to - more - boring comedy. "
The lexicon of international film showed, in contrast, benevolent:
" Successful example of the " sophisticated comedy " of the 30s; enjoyable entertainment with trenchant one-liners and some parodic excursions into thriller genre. "