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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]
- Song "My Concertina":, Phil Boutelje, Jack Scholl
- Paramount Pictures
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 Released May 22, 1936 1h 16m Mystery & Thriller Comedy List Reviews 66% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A murderer is hiding aboard the S.S. Mammoth, an ocean liner on its ...
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- William K. Howard
- Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
- Paramount Pictures
Princess Comes Across, The -- (Movie Clip) Symbol Of The Lower Classes American accordion star King (Fred MacMurray) swipes credit for flowers delivered to the cabin of Swedish princess Olga (Carole Lombard) who, with sidekick Gertrude (Alison Skipworth) has, without explanation, dropped her accent, early in The Princess Comes Across, 1936.
- William K. Howard
- Carole Lombard
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship. A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he ...
In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away ...
