Thirty Day Princess (1934) on Netflix
Princess Catterina of Taronia comes to New York to raise money for her impoverished country, but mumps put her in quarantine. A financier hires lookalike actress Nancy Lane to pose as her.
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Plot summary
The kingdom of Taronia needs money, and its princess, Catterina, known as Zizzi, travels to New York to find it. She falls ill with the mumps on the way and is quarantined for a month. Financier Richard Gresham is preparing to issue fifty million dollars in Taronian bonds, and with the princess unable to appear, he hires Nancy Lane, an unemployed actress who is her exact double, to take her place, offering a large bonus if she can change the mind of Porter Madison III, the newspaper publisher who leads the opposition to the transaction. Nancy takes the job while the princess stays in quarantine.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Thirty Day Princess (1934)
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- Preston Sturges received a screenwriting credit on Thirty Day Princess, but wrote in his autobiography that "not much" of the work he had done on it actually ended up in the film.
- Cary Grant was infuriated by scathing reviews of Thirty Day Princess, biographer Geoffrey Wansell says, and afterwards demanded to pick his own roles; Wansell claims Paramount retaliated by loaning Grant to United Artists.
- Filming on Thirty Day Princess was to have started on 28 February 1934 but was held up when William Collier Sr., cast as the Managing editor, fell ill; he was replaced and production began on 1 March.
