30 Sep 2005
Capote
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Grand Duke Peter
Elisabeth Bergner Catherine
Flora Robson Empress Elisabeth
Gerald du Maurier Lecocq
Irene Vanbrugh Princess Anhalt-Zerbst
Joan Gardner Katushienka
Dorothy Hale Countess Olga
Diana Napier Countess Vorontzova
Griffith Jones Grigory Orlov
Gibb McLaughlin Bestujhev
Clifford Heatherley Ogarev
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
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