---
title: 'The Princess Comes Across (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William K. Howard'
released: '1936-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 76
genres:
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-princess-comes-across-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028138/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Princess Comes Across (1936)

1936 · 76 min · Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

The Princess Comes Across is a 1936 American mystery comedy film directed by William K. Howard and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, the second of the four times they were paired together. Lombard, playing an actress from Brooklyn pretending to be a Swedish princess, does a "film-length takeoff" on MGM's Swedish star Greta Garbo. The film was based on the 1935 novel A Halálkabin by Louis Lucien Rogger, the pseudonym of Laszlo Aigner and Louis Acze.

## Credits

- **Director:** [William K. Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-k-howard)
- **Screenplay:** [Billy Wilder](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-wilder), [Charles Brackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-brackett), [Don Hartman](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-hartman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Phil Boutelje](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-boutelje)
- **Producer:** [Arthur Hornblow, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hornblow-jr)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ted Tetzlaff](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-tetzlaff)
- **Editor:** [Paul Weatherwax](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-weatherwax)

## Cast

- [Tetsu Komai](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsu-komai)
- [Douglass Dumbrille](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglass-dumbrille)
- [Lumsden Hare](https://cinepixo.com/people/lumsden-hare)
- [William Frawley](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-frawley)
- [Alison Skipworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-skipworth)
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)
- [George Barbier](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barbier)
- [Fred MacMurray](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-macmurray)
- [Mischa Auer](https://cinepixo.com/people/mischa-auer)
- [Sig Ruman](https://cinepixo.com/people/sig-ruman)
- [Carole Lombard](https://cinepixo.com/people/carole-lombard)

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