The Rise of Catherine the Great

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Actors: Flora Robson , Gibb McLaughlin , Laurence Hanray , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Joan Gardner , Allan Jeayes , Griffith Jones , Irene Vanbrugh , Elisabeth Bergner , Diana Napier , Gerald du Maurier , Clifford Heatherley , Dorothy Hale

Director: Paul Czinner

IMDB Rate: 6.3 out of 10 (158 votes)

Plot Summary:In 1745 a German princess, renamed Catherine, arrives to marry Grand Duke Peter of Russia, whom she initially likes. But his suspicious, unstable nature gradually estranges them, and Peter finds solace with pretty courtiers. Catherine invents her own (fictitious) lovers, temporarily improving matters. Alas, accession to the throne brings out the worst in Peter, and loyal Catherine is urged to assume power.