The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across is a 1936 mysterycomedy 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 filmlength takeoff on MGMs Swedish star Greta Garbo.

The Princess Comes Across which began with the working title Concertina was initially intended to pair Lombard with George Raft for the third time, but Raft walked out when the studio assigned Ted Tetzlaff to photograph the film. Raft felt that Tetzlaff had made Lombard look better than himself in their earlier film, Rumba, and did not want it to happen again. With Raft out of the picture, and temporarily suspended for his actions, the studio reteamed Lombard and MacMurray, who had made the screwball comedy Hands Across the Table together in 1935. They would be paired together twice more, in 1937s Swing High, Swing Low and True Confession, made in the same year.Aside from casting concerns, filming was also delayed by the need for additional dialogue, which caused a change of directors from Harold Young to William K. Howard, and, after filming had begun in February 1936, by conflict between Howard and the producers assistant. ........

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