Catherine The Great

(1934)

95 minutes

aka "The Rise of Catherine The Great"

Biography / Historical Drama

Country: Great Britain
  
Directed by Paul Czinner
 
Cast:

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Grand Duke Peter
Elisabeth Bergner as Czarina Catherine
Flora Robson as Empress Elisabeth
Gerald du Maurier as Lecocq
Irene Vanbrugh as Princess Anhalt-Zerbst
Joan Gardner as Katushienka
Dorothy Hale as Countess Olga
Diana Napier as Countess Vorontzova
Griffith Jones as Grigory Orlov
Gibb MacLaughlin as Bestujhev
Clifford Heatherley as Ogarev
Laurence Hanray as Goudovitch
Allan Jeayes as Col. Karnilov
 
Lavish story of Russian Czarina whose life is spoiled by rigidly planned marriage to the mad prince, and how she slowly conquered the Russian court.