"A concertina... very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls"
Carole Lombard's effervescent charm elevates this otherwise-minor 1936 screwball comedy. In THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS, Lombard boards an ocean-liner and winds up in the middle of a series of hijinks and murder on the high seas - with Fred MacMurray, Alison Skipworth and William Frawley in strong support.
The press is abuzz with the news of Olga, a glamorous Swedish princess, sailing to America in order to star in a movie of "Lavender and Old Lace", but which shall be re-titled "She Done Him Plenty", according to Olga's lady-in-waiting, Gertrude (Alison Skipworth). But there's one little secret... Olga isn't a princess, nor is she Swedish. Rather, Olga is Wanda Nash, an American showgirl desperate for fame and driven to impersonating obscure Swedish royalty in a last-ditch bid to make her dream a reality.
She almost gets away with it, until a blackmailer tracks her to the ship and is later found dead in her bed. Luckily for the princess, the ship is also...
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