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A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of Russia. With its luxurious renderings of the eighteenth-century St. Petersburg royal court and its nearly screwball evocation of Catherine and Peter’s teasing relationship, The Rise of Catherine the Great was a wise and worthy follow-up to Henry VIII.
Original Release
01/16/1934
US Release
02/09/1934
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Grand Duke Peter |
Elisabeth Bergner | Catherine |
Flora Robson | Empress Elisabeth |
Gerald du Maurier | Lecocq |
Irene Vanbrugh | Princess Anhalt-Zerbst |
Joan Gardner | Katushienka |
Dorothy Hale | Countess Olga |
Diana Napier | Countess Vorontzova |
Griffith Jones | Grigory Orlov |
Gibb McLaughlin | Bestujhev |
Directors
Writers
Lajos Biró, Arthur Wimperis, Melchior Lengyel, Marjorie Deans
Cast
Name | Character |
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Grand Duke Peter |
Elisabeth Bergner | Catherine |
Flora Robson | Empress Elisabeth |
Gerald du Maurier | Lecocq |
Irene Vanbrugh | Princess Anhalt-Zerbst |
Joan Gardner | Katushienka |
Dorothy Hale | Countess Olga |
Diana Napier | Countess Vorontzova |
Griffith Jones | Grigory Orlov |
Gibb McLaughlin | Bestujhev |
Clifford Heatherley | Ogarev |
Lawrence Hanray | Goudovitch |
Allan Jeayes | Colonel Karnilov |
Charles Carson | English Ambassador |
Heron Carvic | Minor Role |
Stewart Granger | Regiment Soldier |
William Heughan | Minor Role |
Judy Kelly | Guest at Hunting Lodge |
Arnold Lucy | Minor Role |
John Turnbull | Rumyantsev |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alexander Korda | Producer |
Ludovico Toeplitz | Producer |