Expensive Husbands

Expensive Husbands

Your name my be Rupert...But it ought to be Bill...BILL...BILL!

1937 · 62 min · ★ 5.9 · Romance, Comedy

Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?

Directed by Bobby Connolly · Written by Lillie Hayward

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Cast

Patric Knowles Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
Beverly Roberts Laurine Lynne
Allyn Joslyn Joe Craig
Gordon Oliver Ricky Preston
Vladimir Sokoloff Herr Andrew Brenner
Eula Guy Trommy, Laurine's Maid
Fritz Feld Herr Meyer, Hotel Director
Ann Codee Maria
George Humbert Giovanni
Otto Fries Franz, Buggy Driver
Sam Ash Reporter
Glen Cavender Austrian Policeman at Jail

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