The Princess's Whim (French: Caprice de princesse) is a 1934 French-German comedy film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Karl Hartl and starring Marie Bell, Albert Préjean and Armand Bernard. It was produced as the French-language version of the 1933 German film Her Highness the Saleswoman and distributed by L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, the French subsidiary of UFA. It is based on the play My Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting.
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Synopis
Princess Isabelle falls in love with André, a literary historian in charge of her family's library, but he is not interested due to her grandiose manner. He seeks a woman from a more simple background. Isabelle then passes herself off as a financially struggling younger sister Irène, who worked as a salesgirl, in order to win him over.
Cast
Marie Bell as Irène / Isabelle
Albert Préjean as André Martine / André Méry
Armand Bernard as Barnabé
Roger Dann as Octave
Guy Sloux as Paul
Germaine Roger as Henriette
Gaston Jacquet as Le Notaire
Fernand Frey as Felix - Le Valet
Sinoël as Un matelot
Bill Bocket as Le Contrôleur
Gaston Mauger as Le Capitaine
Marcel Merminod as Un Matelot