Cast
- Marilyn Monroe as Elsie Marina. Elsie is a showgirl who is targeted by the Prince Regent as a sexual conquest whom he asks to the Carpathian embassy for supper.
- Laurence Olivier as Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia. He is a stickler for formality and, because of his wealth and position, takes advantage of women of the working class. He invites Elsie Marina to the Embassy for supper.
- Sybil Thorndike as the Dowager Queen. The Queen is rather deaf but understands the events around her. She has some very witty conversations with Elsie.
- Richard Wattis as Northbrook. Northbrook is the unflappable British civil servant, assigned to the Prince Regent of Carpathia as an aide.
- Jeremy Spenser as King Nicolas of Carpathia, though Carpathia is governed by his father, Prince Charles, as Regent.
- Paul Hardwick as Major Domo
- Esmond Knight as Colonel Hoffman
- Rosamond Greenwood as Maud
- Aubrey Dexter as The Ambassador
- Maxine Audley as Lady Sunningdale
- Harold Goodwin as Call Boy
- Jean Kent as Maisie Springfield
- Daphne Anderson as Fanny
- Gillian Owen as Maggie
- Vera Day as Betty
- Margot Lister as Lottie
- Charles Victor as Theatre Manager
- David Horne as The Foreign Office
- Gladys Henson as Dresser
Read more about this topic: The Prince And The Showgirl
Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“Cassius is aweary of the world:
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a notebook, learned and conned by rote
To cast into my teeth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)