''Princess, At Your Orders!'' (French: ''Princesse, à vos ordres!'') is a 1931 German
romantic comedy
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film directed by
Hanns Schwarz and
Max de Vaucorbeil and starring
Lilian Harvey,
Henri Garat, and
Jean Mercanton.
[Crisp p.26] It was produced by
UFA as the French-language version of the studio's film ''
Her Grace Commands''. In the early years of
sound film
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s, before the practice of
dubbing
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became widespread, it was common for a film to be reshot in
multiple languages.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Erich Kettelhut
Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his s ...
.
Cast
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Lilian Harvey as La princesse Marie-Christine
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Henri Garat as Carl de Berck
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Jean Mercanton as Le petit roi
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Marcel Vibert
Marcel Vibert (2 November 1883 – 11 June 1959) was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including ''Moulin Rouge (1928 film), Moulin Ro ...
as Heynitz
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Bill Bocket
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Common meanings
* Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
* Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
* Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
* Bill, a bird or animal's beak
P ...
as Pipac
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Raymond Guérin-Catelain as Le Prince de Leuchtenstein
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Théo Tony
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Marcel Merminod
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Comedian Harmonists as Les cuisiniers
References
Bibliography
* Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939, Volume 1; Volumes 1929–1939''. Indiana University Press, 2015.
External links
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1931 films
1931 romantic comedy films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Max de Vaucorbeil
Films directed by Hanns Schwarz
UFA GmbH films
German multilingual films
German romantic comedy films
German black-and-white films
1931 multilingual films
1930s German films
Films scored by Werner R. Heymann
French-language German films
French-language romantic comedy films
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