Thirty-Day Princess

Infobox Film
name = Thirty-Day Princess


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caption = theatrical poster
director = Marion Gering
producer = B.P. Schulberg
writer = Story:
Clarence Budington Kelland
Adaptation:
Sam Hellman
Edwin Justus Mayer
Screenplay:
Preston Sturges
Frank Partos
narrator =
starring = Sylvia Sidney
Cary Grant
Edward Arnold
music = Howard Jackson
Rudolph G. Kopp
John Leipold
Harry Ruby
Karl Hajos
cinematography = Leon Shamroy
editing = Jane Loring
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 18 May fy|1934
runtime = 74 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0025880

"Thirty-Day Princess" is a 1934 black-and-white comedy film starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant and Edward Arnold. Based on a story of the same name by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in "Ladies' Home Journal" in 1933, [TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=92935&category=Screenplay%20Info Screenplay info] ] adapted by Sam Hellman and Edwin Justus Mayer and written by Preston Sturges and Frank Partos, the film was directed by Marion Gering.

Plot

On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and has to be quarantined for a month onboard ship. In desperation, financier Richard Gresham (Edward Arnold, who is planning to issue $50 million in Taronian bonds, hires unemployed lookalike actress Nancy Lane (Sidney again) to impersonate the princess, and offers her a large bonus if she changes the mind of the chief opponent of the proposal, newspaper publisher Porter Madison III (Cary Grant). [IMDB [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025880/plotsummary Plot summary] ] [Brennan, Sandra [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:113365~T0 Plot summary (Allmovie)] ] [TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=92935&category=Full%20Synopsis Full synopsis] ]

Cast

Production

Production on "Thirty-Day Princess" was to have begun on 28 February fy|1934, but was delayed because of the illness of William Collier Sr., who was scheduled to play the role of the "Managing editor". Collier was replaced and production began on 1 March.TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=92935&category=Notes Notes] ] TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=92935&category=Overview Overview] ]

Although Preston Sturges received a writing credit for the film's screenplay, he wrote in his autobiography that "not much" of his work was actually used. Sturges also said of B.P. Schulberg that "as a producer, [he] was accustomed to accepting praise for pictures as generals accept praise for the valor of their soldiers, and it thus seemed logical to him that the writers should feel the same general sense of shared accomplishment."

"Thirty-Day Princess" was released on 18 May 1934.

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*imdb title|0025880
*tcmdb title|92935
*amg movie|1:113365