Fit for a King

Fit for a King

73 mins | Comedy | Sept. 1, 1937

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.

Fit for a King

73 mins | Comedy | Sept. 1, 1937

Fit for a King
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers RKO Radio Pictures, David L. Loew Productions
Original title Fit for a King
Directors Edward Sedgwick
Writers Richard Flournoy

Cast

Joe E. Brown

as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones

Helen Mack

as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen

Paul Kelly

as Briggs

Harry Davenport

as Archduke Julio

Halliwell Hobbes

as Count Strunsky

John Qualen

as Otto

Donald Briggs

as Prince Michael

Robert Warwick

as Prime Minister

Frank Reicher

as Kurtz

Russell Hicks

as Editor Hardwick

Charles Trowbridge

as Mr. Marshall