The Prince and the Showgirl
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Actor: Aubrey Dexter, Daphne Anderson, Dennis Edwards, Maxine Audley, Vera DayPrimary Contributor: Marilyn Monroe
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 117 minutes
Release Date: 1993-01-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of The Prince and the Showgirl
Movie Review: Rather slow and talky, but Marilyn is simply radiant
Summary: 3 Stars
As a romantic comedy, "The Prince and the Showgirl" really isn't that funny; it's fairly slow and talky, and I found myself shifting around in my seat in some irritation hoping that something would happen (as Raymond Chandler once said, more or less, when things get slow, you should have somebody burst through a door waving a gun!). However, it's still quite watchable for the simple reason that Marilyn Monroe is at her loveliest and liveliest here. She looks purely fantastic in Edwardian-period dress and, as other reviewers have noted, is in a bright, happy mood throughout the film. So, whenever things get slow, I can content myself with enjoying Marilyn, because she totally enlivens a film that otherwise would be too dull for words.
Summary of The Prince and the Showgirl
Destined to remain a curio in the careers of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, The Prince and the Showgirl is a good movie that might have been great. While's she's wonderful as a saucy showgirl with a knack for foreign relations, Monroe's off-screen notoriety in 1957 made this a directorial nightmare for Olivier, who never bursts out of his stiff-collared finery as the Carpathian Prince Regent, who's smitten by Marilyn's innocent, unpolished candor. Of course, she's actually smarter than the monocled monarch, at least in her sensible handling of his stuffed-shirt diplomacy, so it's easy to forgive Terence Rattigan's script (from his play The Sleeping Prince) for favoring pomp over circumstance. The comedy percolates without bubbling over in this tale of opposites attracting, but it's a top-drawer production anyway, blessed by Jack Cardiff's gorgeous Technicolor cinematography and by the charm of costars who successfully concealed their off-screen anxieties. --Jeff ShannonArt House & International VHS Video
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