Released by Paramount in 1936, The Princess Comes Across is a film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.

Plot

A mixture of screwball comedy and murder mystery, a Swedish princess with a secret (Lombard) and a concertina-playing band leader with a past (MacMurray) board the liner Mammoth, bound for New York. An extortionist, an escaped killer, and a group of police detectives are also aboard. When corpses begin appearing, the characters must identify the killer ... a task which is complicated by their own deceptions.

Cast

• Carole Lombard as Wanda Nash / "Princess Olga"
• Fred MacMurray as King Mantell
• William Frawley as Benton
• Alison Skipworth as Lady Gertrude Allwyn
• Douglass Dumbrille as Inspector Lorel
• Porter Hall as Robert M. Darcy
• George Barbier as Captain Nicholls

Production crew

• Director: William K. Howard
• Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
• Screenplay: Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Don Hartman Frank Butler
• Based on a Story by: Philip MacDonald
• Adapted from a Novel by: Louis Lucien Rogger