Top Billed Cast

Marlene Dietrich
Lady Maria Barker, aka Angel
Herbert Marshall
Sir Frederick Barker
Melvyn Douglas
Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Edward Everett Horton
Graham
Ernest Cossart
Christopher 'Chris' Wilton
Laura Hope Crews
Grand Duchess Anna Dmitrievna
Herbert Mundin
Mr. Greenwood
Dennie Moore
Emma MacGillicuddy Wilton
Gino Corrado
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Ivan Lebedeff
Leonard Carey
Louise Carter
Phyllis Coghlan
George Davis
Duci De Kerekjarto
Herbert Evans
Lord Davington's Butler (uncredited)
James Finlayson
Barker's 2nd Butler (uncredited)
Bobby Hale
News Vendor (uncredited)
Gerald Hamer
Sam Harris
Man at Club (uncredited)
Arthur Hurni
Olaf Hytten
Consolidated Press Photographer (uncredited)
Suzanne Kaaren
Carl M. Leviness
Gwendolyn Logan
Lionel Pape
Joseph Romantini
Michael Visaroff
Eric Wilton

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jan 09 2023

Ernst Lubitsch has managed not only to assemble three strong character actors here, but he also manages to get them to play well with/against each other without the whole thing descending into predicable melodrama. The lynch pin of the plot is the glamorous "Lady Maria" (Marlene Dietrich) who is married to her loyal, if maybe not the most lively, diplomat husband "Sir Frederick" (Herbert Marshall). Whilst feeling a bit neglected when he is away on one of his trips, she heads to Paris to visit her friend, the Russian Grand Duchess "Anna" (Laura Hope-Crews). As was customary for ladies of great s...