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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 Kyrill DeShishmareff

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