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When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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Genre:Romance, Comedy
Written By:Casey Robinson
In Theaters:12/25/1937
Box Office:
Runtime:98 minutes
Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Anatole Litvak
Director
Claudette Colbert
Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov
Charles Boyer
Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff
Basil Rathbone
Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
Anita Louise
Helene Dupont
Melville Cooper
Charles Dupont
Isabel Jeans
Fermonde Dupont
Morris Carnovsky
Chauffourier Dubieff
Victor Kilian
Gendarme
Maurice Murphy
Georges Dupont
Gregory Gaye
Count Frederic Brekenski
Montagu Love
M. Courtois
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