Sylvia Sidney
Nancy Lane/Princess Catterina
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Thirty Day Princess is a 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Marion Gering and starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant and Edward Arnold.
Thirty Day Princess: Directed by Marion Gering. With Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson. A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Marion Gering
- 1934-05-18
Thirty Day Princess (1934) gave its original audience a perfect Depression-era fantasy, allowing viewers to transform themselves from starving New Yorkers into polished royalty. Sylvia Sidney plays a struggling actress with 17 cents in her pocket who is plucked off the street and offered $10,000 to impersonate a European princess for one month.
- Marion Gering, Art Jacobson
- Sylvia Sidney
To build public support for his plan, he arranges an American publicity tour by the country’s princess, played by the charming Sylvia Sidney. On the eve of the tour the princess comes down with the mumps, and Arnold is obliged to find a look-alike to take her place.
In a congenial pictorial comedy known as "Thirty Day Princess," which is now adorning the Paramount screen, Sylvia Sidney plays a dual role. Sometimes she is beheld as Princess Catterina, who hails from an imaginary kingdom called Taronia, and on other occasions she appears as Nancy Lane, a New York actress who is out of work.
A Princess who arrives in the United States of America from Taronia on a good will tour to raise money for her people develops the mumps and needs to quarantine for 30 days while an actress doppelgänger plays her role. Starring Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant during the Golden days of Hollywood's black and white movies. — waltermwilliams. On a ...
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“Thirty Day Princess is G-O-O-D! It’s fun. It’s clever. It’s suspenseful and it presents a running fire of bright dialogue that keeps the corners of your mouth turned up” — Chicago Daily Tribune Directed by
