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Twenty-first-century audiences may know this movie best as the FilmWithinAFilm in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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Twenty-first-century audiences may know this movie best as the FilmWithinAFilm in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With with Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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''The Prince and the Showgirl'' is a 1957 British ScrewballComedy film starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Creator/MarilynMonroe, and directed by the former. It was adapted by Terence Rattigan from his own 1953 play ''The Sleeping Prince''.
Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsie becomes involved not only in a royal romance, but in some international intrigue which [[AvoidingTheGreatWar could lead to a world war]].
Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsie becomes involved not only in a royal romance, but in some international intrigue which [[AvoidingTheGreatWar could lead to a world war]].
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''The Prince and the Showgirl'' is a 1957 British ScrewballComedy film starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier (who also directed) and Creator/MarilynMonroe, and directed by the former. Creator/MarilynMonroe. It was adapted by Terence Rattigan from his own 1953 play [[TheFilmOfThePlay stage play]] ''The Sleeping Prince''.
Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsiebecomes finds herself involved not only in a royal romance, but in some international intrigue which [[AvoidingTheGreatWar could lead to a world war]].
Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsie
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''The Prince and the Showgirl'' is a 1957 ScrewballComedy starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Creator/MarilynMonroe, and directed by the former. It was adapted from Terence Rattigan's play ''The Sleeping Prince''.
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''The Prince and the Showgirl'' is a 1957 British ScrewballComedy film starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Creator/MarilynMonroe, and directed by the former. It was adapted from by Terence Rattigan's Rattigan from his own 1953 play ''The Sleeping Prince''.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Defrosting ice prince, more like.
** Ice ''regent'' to be precise.
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* GrandeDame: The Queen Dowager, played by Dame Sybil Thorndike
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* WomanInWhite: Elsie wears a white evening gown throughout the movie. Somewhat lampshaded by the Queen Dowager, who finally tells her [[LimitedWardrobe it might be OK to wear other colors now and again.]]
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* EasilyOverheardConversation: Nicholas (the sixteen year old king of Carpathia) has an entire conversation ''in front of Elsie'' [[spoiler: about his plans to overthrow his father with German help]]--and while it is in a different language, it also happens to be one that Elsie speaks...
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Elsie gets drunk on what the Regent claims is the normal amount of vodka to add to a four-year-old child's morning milk. Thing is, so does he...
* CurtainCamouflage: Mild version, as the Regent is in a different room but peers out the window as Elsie talks to her friends from the next balcony.
* CurtainCamouflage: Mild version, as the Regent is in a different room but peers out the window as Elsie talks to her friends from the next balcony.
* HypocriticalHumor: The Regent repeatedly criticizes Elsie for the things that he promptly does himself.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Elsie tells her friends that the Regent has no sense of humor. When he confronts her on this, she modifies it to being a [[GermanHumor "Carpathian"]] sense of humor: just as good, but...different.
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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Prince Charles is savvy, Elsie is energetic
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie is wild.
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie is wild.
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* RunningGag: Elsie making the Regent pin his farewell-gift brooch to her dress....every time she's about to leave.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Prince Charles is savvy, Elsie isenergetic
energetic.
* SmarterThanTheyLook: Elsie might be a ditzy understudy theatre girl, but she isn't ''dumb.''
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie iswild.
wild
* WomanInWhite: Elsie wears a white evening gown throughout the movie. Somewhat lampshaded by the Queen Dowager, who finally tells her [[LimitedWardrobe it might be OK to wear other colors now and again.]]
* YouAreGrounded: The Regent grounds his son (the King of Carpathia) on learning that he's put a clandestine call through to the German embassy.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Prince Charles is savvy, Elsie is
* SmarterThanTheyLook: Elsie might be a ditzy understudy theatre girl, but she isn't ''dumb.''
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie is
* WomanInWhite: Elsie wears a white evening gown throughout the movie. Somewhat lampshaded by the Queen Dowager, who finally tells her [[LimitedWardrobe it might be OK to wear other colors now and again.]]
* YouAreGrounded: The Regent grounds his son (the King of Carpathia) on learning that he's put a clandestine call through to the German embassy.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Defrosting ice prince, more likelike.
** Ice ''regent'' to be precise.
** Ice ''regent'' to be precise.
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* GrandeDame: The Queen Dowager, played by Dame Sybil Thorndike
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie takes place over the course of three days, specifically June 21 to June 23 of 1911
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Twenty-first-century audiences may know this best as the movie which was being filmed in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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Twenty-first-century audiences may know this movie best as the movie which was being filmed FilmWithinAFilm in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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Twenty-first-century audiences may known know this best as the movie which was being filmed in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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* AvoidingTheGreatWar: Carpathia is in the Entente Alliance, but the underage king is pro-German. Impatient to assume power, he plots with the Germans to oust the regent, an action which could lead to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI starting three years early. Elsie prevents this from happening by mending the relationship between Prince Charles and King Nicolas.
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* AvoidingTheGreatWar: Carpathia is in the Entente Alliance, but the underage king King Nicolas is pro-German. Impatient to assume power, he plots with the Germans to oust the regent, an action which could lead to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI starting three years early. Elsie prevents this from happening by mending the relationship between Prince Charles and King Nicolas.
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* AvoidingTheGreatWar: Carpathia is in the Entente Alliance, but the underage king is pro-German. Impatient to assume power, he plots with the Germans to oust the regent, an action which could lead to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI starting three years early. Elsie prevents this from happening by mending the relationship between Prince Charles and King Nicolas.
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'''''The Prince and the Showgirl''''' is a 1957 ScrewballComedy starring Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Creator/MarilynMonroe, and directed by the former. It was adapted from Terence Rattigan's play ''The Sleeping Prince''.
Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsie becomes involved not only in a royal romance, but in some international intrigue which [[AvoidingTheGreatWar could lead to a world war]].
Twenty-first-century audiences may known this best as the movie which was being filmed in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AvoidingTheGreatWar: Carpathia is in the Entente Alliance, but the underage king is pro-German. Impatient to assume power, he plots with the Germans to oust the regent, an action which could lead to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI starting three years early.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Defrosting ice prince, more like
* TheEdwardianEra: Technically, it takes place during the coronation of King Edward's successor, but still.
* HighClassGlass: Prince Charles wears one
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Elsie
* NaiveEverygirl: Elsie
* OnlySaneMan: Poor Northbrook
* {{Ruritania}}: Prince Charles is the prince regent of a fictional Balkan country called Carpathia, presumably named for the Carpathian Mountains.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Prince Charles is savvy, Elsie is energetic
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie is wild.
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Set against the backdrop of the 1911 coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King George V]], the film stars Olivier as Prince Charles, a strict {{Ruritania}}n regent, and Monroe as Elsie Marina, a fun-loving American showgirl. Before long, Elsie becomes involved not only in a royal romance, but in some international intrigue which [[AvoidingTheGreatWar could lead to a world war]].
Twenty-first-century audiences may known this best as the movie which was being filmed in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn''. Coincidentally, ''My Week With Marilyn'' was released in 2011, exactly a century after the 1911 setting of ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AvoidingTheGreatWar: Carpathia is in the Entente Alliance, but the underage king is pro-German. Impatient to assume power, he plots with the Germans to oust the regent, an action which could lead to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI starting three years early.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Defrosting ice prince, more like
* TheEdwardianEra: Technically, it takes place during the coronation of King Edward's successor, but still.
* HighClassGlass: Prince Charles wears one
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Elsie
* NaiveEverygirl: Elsie
* OnlySaneMan: Poor Northbrook
* {{Ruritania}}: Prince Charles is the prince regent of a fictional Balkan country called Carpathia, presumably named for the Carpathian Mountains.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Prince Charles is savvy, Elsie is energetic
* UptightLovesWild: Prince Charles is uptight, Elsie is wild.
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