The Rise of Catherine the Great

The more he hated her, the more she loved him...this girl of MANY loves who rose to rule a hundred million souls but could not govern her own heart.

95 mins
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Grand Duke Peter

Flora Robson

Empress Elisabeth

Irene Vanbrugh

Princess Anhalt-Zerbst

Joan Gardner

Katushienka

Dorothy Hale

Countess Olga

Diana Napier

Countess Vorontzova

Griffith Jones

Grigory Orlov

Laurence Hanray

Goudovitch

Allan Jeayes

Colonel Karnilov

Charles Carson

English Ambassador

Stewart Granger

Regiment Soldier

Judy Kelly

Guest at Hunting Lodge

John Turnbull

Rumyantsev

Michael Wilding

Regiment Soldier

Arnold Lucy

Minor Role

William Heughan

Minor Role

Heron Carvic

Minor Role

Georges Périnal

Director of Photography

Muir Mathieson

Music Director

Marjorie Deans

Scenario Writer

Geoffrey Boothby

Assistant Director

Robert LaPresle

Camera Operator

B.J. Simmons

Costume Design

Paul Czinner

Director

Arthur Wimperis

Continuity

Lajos Biró

Continuity

Muir Mathieson

Original Music Composer

Melchior Lengyel

Theatre Play

Lajos Biró

Theatre Play

Harold Young

Supervising Editor

David B. Cunynghame

Production Manager

Ernst Toch

Original Music Composer

John Armstrong

Costume Design

Robert Krasker

Camera Operator

Marjorie Deans

Screenplay

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