Tallulah Bankhead

Charles Coburn

Anne Baxter

William Eythe

Vincent Price

Mischa Auer

Sig Ruman

Vladimir Sokoloff

Mikhail Rasumny

Paul Baratoff

Eugene Beday

Egon Brecher

Renee Carson

Harry Carter

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.

Victor De Linsky

Donald Douglas

Nestor Eristoff

Fred Essler

Sandra Foloway

Arno Frey

Eva Gabor

Mario Gang

George Glebeff

Wilton Graff

Roxanne Hilton

Ann Hunter

Martha Jewett

Torben Meyer

Fred Nurney

John Russell

Dick Ryan

Sam Savitsky

George Shdanoff

Eugene Sigaloff

Dina Smirnova

Leonid Snegoff

Grady Sutton

Henry Victor

Michael Visaroff

Friedrich von Ledebur

Virginia Walker

Marek Windheim

Otto Preminger

Edwin Justus Mayer

Ernst Lubitsch

Lajos Biró

Ben Nye

Thomas Little

Bruno Frank

Melchior Lengyel

Arthur C. Miller

René Hubert

Alfred Newman

Lyle R. Wheeler

Dorothy Spencer

Mark-Lee Kirk

Frances C. Richardson

Gertrude Kingston

Comedy

History

Drama

A Royal Scandal

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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William Eythe is "Lt. Chernoff", an enthusiastic Russian officer determined to warn his Empress that she is in the gravest of danger. Arriving at her palace, he eventually manages to secure an audience but it turns out that Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead) and her shrewd Chancellor "Ilyitch" (Charles Coburn) have already dealt with this potential treachery. The Empress, however, takes a bit of a shine to her gallant young soldier and soon he is soaring through the ranks - much to the chagrin of his fiancée "Anna" (Anne Baxter). As he rises, he begins to think he can make a difference - and is soon treading on toes that could spell his end... The writing is amusing and quick fire, and the efforts from Bankhead and, particularly, Coburn keep this film moving along a-pace. There is plenty of pith in the script, and though it pays but the tiniest of nods to actual history, it does offer us quite an entertaining account of how life might have been when the court was run by a lady who liked the sight of a soldier in a white uniform. Good fun!

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A ROYAL SCANDAL Original 1945 trailer