Word: chegodiev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character of Prince Chegodiev resembles Grand Duke Dmitri* quite as much as it does Prince Youssoupov...
...Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder the monk in accord with history...
What M-G-M was paying Sir William Jowitt's large fee for was not to get this story made a matter of oath but to try to show that the cinema characters of Prince Chegodiev and Princess Natasha were not drawn from the Youssoupovs. Very quickly he made the following points...
...have an interest in fair play and right. I was actually acquainted not only with Rasputin himself, but with Purish-kevitch and the others. I was actually invited by Purishkevitch to murder Rasputin. . . . We had a plot on foot to save the Tsar, but nothing came of it. Chegodiev in the film seemed more like Grand Duke Dmitri. It never occurred to me Natasha was Princess Irina...
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