LIBEL ACTION
SEQUEL TO PICTURE “RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS.” SUIT BY PRINCESS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) New York, October 27. Princess Irian, wife of Prince Felix Yousoupouffi, who in legal papers is said to be a cousin of King George, the ex-Kaiser and the late Czar has filed a 2,000,000 dollar libel suit against the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Film Corporation, producer of “Rasputin and the Empress.” She alleges that the character in the motion picture, Princess Natasha, who in the film introduces the monk into the Czar’s household and then becomes his mistress, is so thinly veiled that people throughout the world have recognized the character as herself. She further charges that the 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.
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Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 7
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151LIBEL ACTION Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 7
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