The Countess of Monte Cristo is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Karl Freund and starring Fay Wray, Paul Lukas and Reginald Owen.Dick p.81 The film is a remake of a 1932 German film, Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo. It was remade again in 1948 under the same title.
Plot In Austria a struggling actress borrows the fancy clothes and car from her film set, and goes to stay in a luxury hotel under the name "Countess of Monte Cristo".
Cast Fay Wray as Janet Krueger Paul Lukas as Rumowski Reginald Owen as The Baron Patsy Kelly as Mimi Paul Page as Stefan John Sheehan as Sterner Carmel Myers as Flower Girl Robert McWade as Hotel Manager Frank Reicher as Police Commissioner Richard Tucker as Picture Director Matthew Betz as Rumowski's Valet Bobby Watson as Hotel Valet Harvey Clark as Newspaper Editor Dewey Robinson as Proprietor of Exchange
See also The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932) The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948) Just Once a Great Lady (1957)
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Bibliography Dick, Bernard F. City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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