Big Libel Suit Against Talkie Producers

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7300, 30 October 1933, Page 7

Big Libel Suit Against Talkie Producers

SEQUEL TO RASPUTIN FILM (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Recevied Sunday, 7 p.ni. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Princess Irian, wife of Prince Felix Yousoupouff, who in legal papers is said to he a cousin, of King George V., the ex-Kaiser and the late Czar, has filed a 2,000,000-dollar libel suit against the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Corporation, producers of “Rasputin and the Empress.” She alleges that a character in the motion picture, Princess Natash, who in the film introduces a monk into the Czar’s household and then becomes his mistress, is so thinly veiled that people throughout the world have recognised the character as herself. She further charges that a foreword to the film declares: “A few of the characters are still alive; the rest met death by violence,” and that she and her husband are the only ones involved in the action now living.