The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934 film)
The Countess of Monte Cristo is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Karl Freund and starring Fay Wray, Paul Lukas and Reginald Owen.[1] The film was a remake of a 1932 German film The Countess of Monte Cristo. It was remade in 1948 under the same title.
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| Directed by | Karl Freund |
| Produced by | Stanley Bergerman |
| Written by | Karen DeWolf Norman Krasna Walter Reisch Earle Snell Gladys Unger |
| Starring | Fay Wray Paul Lukas Reginald Owen |
| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Charles J. Stumar |
| Edited by | Philip Cahn |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Synopsis
In Austria a struggling actress borrows the fancy clothes and car from her film set, and goes to stay in a luxury hotel under the name "Countess of Monte Cristo".
Cast
- Fay Wray as Janet Krueger
- Paul Lukas as Rumowski
- Reginald Owen as The Baron
- Patsy Kelly as Mimi
- Paul Page as Stefan
- John Sheehan as Sterner
- Carmel Myers as Flower Girl
- Robert McWade as Hotel Manager
- Frank Reicher as Police Commissioner
- Richard Tucker as Picture Director
- Matthew Betz as Rumowski's Valet
- Bobby Watson as Hotel Valet
- Harvey Clark as Newspaper Editor
- Dewey Robinson as Proprietor of Exchange
gollark: > "stop being a teenager"Precisely.
gollark: Destroy it.
gollark: Am I to read "we've been trying to keep things more PG than in the past" as a request to CEASE this conversement?
gollark: I mean, we really only just decided to enforce R4.
gollark: idea: speak x86 machine code.
See also
- The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932)
- The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
- Just Once a Great Lady (1957)
References
- Dick p.81
Bibliography
- Dick, Bernard F. City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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