The Rise of Catherine the Great
- Original title
- The Rise of Catherine the Greataka
- AKA
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- Catherine the Great
- Year
- 1934
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Elisabeth Bergner
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Flora Robson
- Gerald du Maurier
- Irene Vanbrugh
- Joan Gardner
- Dorothy Hale
- Diana Napier
- Griffith Jones
- Gibb McLaughlin
- Clifford Heatherley
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- Music
- Cinematography
Georges Périnal (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Biography. 18th Century
- Movie Groups
- Melchior Lengyel Adaptations
- Synopsis
- 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.
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