The Scarlet Empress (1934)
With Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe, Gavin Gordon, C. Aubrey Smith, Louise Dresser, Jane Darwell, John Davis Lodge, Maria Riva
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 American historical drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge about the life of Catherine the Great. It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, loosely based on the diary of Catherine arranged by Manuel Komroff. The film stars Dietrich as Catherine, supported by Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, and C. Aubrey Smith. Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva plays Catherine as a child.
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