''Her Grace Commands'' () is a 1931 German

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film directed by

Hanns Schwarz Hanns Schwarz (11 February 1888 – 27 October 1945) was an Austrian film director. He was born in Vienna on 11 February 1888. Biography He directed twenty four films between 1924 and 1937 in both English and German. During the late silent a ...

and starring

Käthe von Nagy Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, stage name Käthe von Nagy (4 April 1904 – 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in German and French cinema. Early life and education Käthe von Nagy, the daughter of a wea ...

Willy Fritsch Willy Fritsch (Wilhelm Egon Fritz, 27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theatre and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. Biography Early life He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz ...

and

Reinhold Schünzel Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despit ...

. It is also translated into the

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''Her Highness Commands''. It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of a ...

with sets designed by the

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Erich Kettelhut Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his s ...

. It premiered in

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on 3 March 1931, before being released at the

Gloria-Palast The Gloria-Palast was a German cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in the German capital Berlin. It was constructed in 1924 and replaced the existing neo-Baroque Romanischen Hauses designed by Franz Heinrich Schwechten. It became a common lo ...

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the next day. A

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-language version (''

Princess, At Your Orders! ''Princess, At Your Orders!'' (French: ''Princesse, à vos ordres!'') is a 1931 German romantic comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and Max de Vaucorbeil and starring Lilian Harvey, Henri Garat, and Jean Mercanton.Crisp p.26 It was produce ...

'') was produced simultaneously, also directed by Schwarz but with a different cast. The film was remade in

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as well, retitled '' Adorable'', and released by the

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in 1933.

Synopsis

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and a

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fall in love, concealing from each other the truth that they are really a

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and an

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in disguise.Calhoon p. 71

Main cast

as Prinzessin Marie-Christine *

as Leutnant Karl von Conradi *

as Staatsminister Graf Herlitz *

Paul Hörbiger Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrians, Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the ...

as Hofdetektiv Pipac *

Paul Heidemann Paul Heidemann (26 October 1884 – 20 June 1968) was a German actor, comedian, film director, film producer, and opera singer. As a performer, he excelled in various genres and was especially noted for his comedic skills He was born in Cologne ...

as Fürst von Leuchtenstein *

Michael von Newlinsky Michael von Newlinsky (21 June 1891 – 14 August 1964) was an Austrian film actor who appeared in numerous supporting roles during his career, in films such as Georg Wilhelm Pabst's ''Pandora's Box'' (1929).Roberts p.82 Selected filmography * ' ...

as Rittmeister * Eugen Tiller as Major *

Kenneth Rive Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byname m ...

as König *

Erich Kestin Erich Kestin (25 June 1895 – 22 May 1969) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 50 films shows between 1930 and 1953. Selected filmography * '' Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' The Stolen Face'' ( ...

as Bursche bei Conradi * Erik Schütz as Stimmungssänger *

Attila Hörbiger Attila Hörbiger (21 April 1896 – 27 April 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor. Life Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and the younge ...

as Wachtposten

References

Bibliography

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External links

* 1931 films 1931 musical comedy films German musical comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by Hanns Schwarz Films with screenplays by Billy Wilder Films set in Europe German multilingual films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1931 romantic comedy films 1931 multilingual films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1930s German films Films scored by Werner R. Heymann German-language musical comedy films {{1930s-romantic-comedy-film-stub