Catherine the Great

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This historical drama recounts the events that led to the accession of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias. The film opens with the arrival in 1744 of Princess Sophie Auguste Frederika whose name would be changed to Catherine' from her father's court of Anhalt-Zerbst (in modern Germany) to the court of the Empress Elizabeth. "Little Catherine" is to marry the Grand Duke Peter, nephew and heir presumptive of the unmarried and childless Empress Elizabeth.

Drama  History

Directed by

Alexander Korda, Paul Czinner

Starring

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elizabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier, Irene Vanbrugh