| The Princess Comes Across | |
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| Directed by | William K. Howard |
| Screenplay by | Walter DeLeon Francis Martin Don Hartman Frank Butler[1] Claude Binyon (uncredited) J. B. Priestley (uncredited) |
| Story by | Philip MacDonald (adaptation) |
| Based on | A Halálkabin ("Death Cab") (1934 novel) by Louis Lucien Rogger (Laszlo Aigner and Louis Acze) |
| Produced by | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| Starring | Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray |
| Cinematography | Ted Tetzlaff |
| Edited by | Paul Weatherwax |
| Music by | Song "My Concertina": Phil Boutelje Jack Scholl |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 75-76 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 film was based on the 1935 novel A Halálkabin by Louis Lucien Rogger, the pseudonym of Laszlo Aigner and Louis Acze.
- ^ a b The Princess Comes Across at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ Gehring, Wes D. Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2003. ISBN 978-0871951670 pp.136-137