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Word: catterina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...people, is sadly in need of these nice, fat, fifty-nine cent dollars. Santa Claus, in the person of an American banker decides to float a loan for Taronia. In order to impress the American people with the soundness of such an investment, he brings along the beautiful Princess Catterina (Sylvia Sidney). No sooner has the lovely lady put her foot upon American soil than she is smitten with the beauty of the land and a bad case of mumps. Rising to the emergency the banker finds a perfect double in a minor stock actress, also played by Miss Sidney...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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