The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Media (2)

Original title	The Scarlet Empress
Swedish release title	Röda kejsarinnan
Distribution title	Den røde Kejserinde (Danmark) Den røde keiserinne (Norge) Intohimojen keisarinna (Finland) Die große Zarin (Tyskland) Die scharlachrote Kaiserin (Tyskland) L'impératrice rouge (Frankrike) L'imperatrice Caterina (Italien) Zarewna (Österrike) Capricho imperial (Spanien)
Title for Swedish DVD release	The Scarlet Empress
Working title	Her Regiment of Lovers Catherine II Catherine the Great

Director	Josef von Sternberg
Screenplay	Manuel Komroff Eleanor McGeary (ej krediterad)
Director of Photography	Bert Glennon
Music	W. Franke Harling (ej krediterad) John Leipold (ej krediterad) Bernhard Kaun (ej krediterad) Oscar Potoker (ej krediterad)
Production Designer	Hans Dreier (ej krediterad)
Film Editor	Sam Winston (ej krediterad) Josef von Sternberg (ej krediterad)
Production Mixer	Harry D. Mills (ej krediterad)
Executive Producer	Adolph Zukor (presenter) Emanuel Cohen (ej krediterad)
Still Photographer	William Walling (ej krediterad)
Special Photographic Effects	Gordon Jennings (ej krediterad)
Musical Arrangement	W. Franke Harling (ej krediterad) John Leipold (ej krediterad) Milan Roder (ej krediterad)
Costume Designer	Travis Banton (ej krediterad) Ali Hubert (ej krediterad)
Stunt	Audrey Scott (stand-in för Marlene Dietrichs ridning)
Other Crew	Richard Kollorsz (målningar och ikoner - ej krediterad) Peter Balbusch (skulpturer)

Marlene Dietrich	prinsessan Sophia Frederica, senare Katarina den Stora
John Lodge	greve Alexei
Sam Jaffe	tsar Peter
Louise Dresser	tsarinnan Elizabeth Petrovna
C. Aubrey Smith	prins August
Gavin Gordon	Gregory Orloff
Olive Tell	prinsessan Johanna
Ruthelma Stevens	grevinnan Elizabeth
Davison Clark	arkimandriten Simeon Todorsky / ärkebiskopen
Erville Anderson	kansler Alexek Bestuchef
Philip Sleeman (as Phillip Sleeman)	greve Lestoq
Marie Wells	Marie Tshoglokof
Hans von Twardowski	Ivan Shuvolov
Gerald Fielding	löjtnant Dimitri
Maria Riva (as Maria)	Katarina som barn
-	Ej krediterade:
Jameson Thomas	löjtnant Ovitsyn
Edward Van Sloan	Herr Wagner
Jane Darwell	Miss Cardell, Sophias sköterska
Harry Woods	läkaren
John Davidson	markis de la Chetardie
Kent Taylor	Paul
Richard Alexander	greve von Breummer
Hal Boyer	Paul, lakej
Eric Alden	lakej
James Burke	vakt
Belle Stoddard Johnstone	Sophias faster
Nadine Beresford	Sophias faster
Eunice Murdock Moore	Sophias faster
Petra McAllister	Sophias faster
Blanche Rose	Sophias faster
James A. Marcus	värdshusvärd
Thomas C. Blythe	narcissist
Clyde David	narcissist
Julanne Johnston	Katarinas hovdam
Elinor Fair	Katarinas hovdam
Bruce Warren	lakej
George Davis	hovnarr
Agnes Steele	Elizabeths hovdam
Barbara Sabichi	Elizabeths hovdam
Katherine Sabichi	Katarinas hovdam
May Foster	Elizabeths hovdam
Minnie Steele	Elizabeths hovdam
Dina Smirnova	Katarinas hovdam
Anna Duncan	Katarinas hovdam
Patricia Patrick	Katarinas hovdam
Elaine St. Maur	Katarinas hovdam
Warner Richmond	slottsvakt
Leo White	frisören som lockar Katarinas hår
Akim Tamiroff	en man

Production Company	Paramount Productions Inc.
Copyright	Paramount Productions Inc.	1934-09-05	LP4932
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Film AB Paramount	1934
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Universal Pictures Nordic AB	2006

Censorship number	50937
Date	1934-08
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2875 meters
Censored length	2761 meters
Notes	Visningskopior efter censurklipp: 2761 m - 101 minuter.

Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Western Electric Recording
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2875 meter
Length in minutes	105 min
Reels	13 reels

				1933	1934-01-26
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood	Los Angeles, Kalifornien	USA

World premiere	1934-05-09	Carlton	London	United Kingdom	105 min
Release in Sweden	1934-08-29	China	Stockholm	Sweden	101 min
First showing	1934-09-15			USA	105 min
TV showing	1965-06-27	TV		Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	1992-11-11					110 min
	1992-11-14
DVD release	2006-05-10			Sweden

Original title	Symfoni, nr 4, op. 36, f-moll
Composer	Pjotr Tjajkovskij	(1878)

Original title	Slavisk marsch
Composer	Pjotr Tjajkovskij	(1876)

Original title	1812. Uvertyr
Composer	Pjotr Tjajkovskij	(1882)

Original title	Rondo capriccioso, piano, op. 14, E-dur
Composer	Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	(1830)

Original title	Ein Sommernachtstraum
Composer	Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	(1842)

Original title	Die Walküre
Composer	Richard Wagner	(1870)
Lyrics	Richard Wagner	(1870)

Original title	Violin Composition
Composer	Josef von Sternberg	(1934)

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The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Black and white print	16
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck

Type	Program folio