Rasputin and the Empress

…Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) specifically to direct Rasputin and the Empress (1932), which depicts the intrigue at the court of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II. John Barrymore was Prince Chegodieff (a renamed Prince Feliks Yusupov, whose wife, Princess Irina, later successfully sued MGM for libel over the film’s depiction of her…

…she made only one film, Rasputin and the Empress (1933), which was the sole work in which she appeared with her brothers. In 1944 Clifford Odets convinced her to play an impoverished Cockney mother opposite Cary Grant in the film None but the Lonely Heart. For that performance she effectively…

…Rogue (1927), Moby Dick (1930), Rasputin and the Empress (1932; the only film in which Barrymore appeared with his siblings), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Counsellor-at-Law (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and The Great Profile (1940), in which he lampooned his own image. Though his talents were prodigious…