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The Princess Comes Across: Directed by William K. Howard. With Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth. A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- William K. Howard
- 1936-05-22
The Princess Comes Across is a 1936 American 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 . [2]
"The Princess Comes Across" is a mixed genre of comedy, a con caper, murder mystery, and romance, with a good dose of music as well. It's almost too much to pack into 76 minutes and expect a film to be outstanding or exceptional, but this superb cast pulls it off nicely for a very good comedy.
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- Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
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