All the King's Horses
Cast & Crew
Frank Tuttle
Carl Brisson
Mary Ellis
Edward Everett Horton
Katherine De Mille
Eugene Pallette
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Elaine, Queen of Langenstein, is passionately in love with her neglectful husband, Rudolph XIV, but leaves him on their one-year anniversary when, on the advice of his consul, he refuses to shave off his beard, which the queen detests. In her absence, Rudolph meets film star Carlo Rocco, who convinces him to shave off his beard to save his marriage. Discovering they look exactly alike, Carlo offers to impersonate the king while the king goes off to sew "a very mild wild oat." The king, under the guidance of the opportunistic Count Josef "Peppi" von Schlapstaat, vacations in Vienna with Peppi and his assistant, Fraülein Mimi, who adores the king. When Elaine sees Rudolph's beardless picture in the paper, she rushes home and finds her "husband" agreeable in appearance, but cold to her advances. Carlo does all he can to forestall making love to the beautiful queen until she, believing the Lord Chamberlain, Baron Kraemer, is conspiring to keep her husband and her apart, asks Carlo to meet her in Grinzinger, where she and Rudolph had their honeymoon. Carlo then flies to Vienna to retrieve the king. There, Peppi has engaged Carlo to sing for the Viennese, which he does, finishing in time to take Rudolph to Grinzinger. Unable to find the king, who is sleeping in an adjoining room, Carlo goes ahead to Grinzinger and dances with Elaine in the garden until Rudolph arrives and, while Elaine's eyes are closed, takes Carlo's place.
Director
Frank Tuttle
Cast
Carl Brisson
Mary Ellis
Edward Everett Horton
Katherine De Mille
Eugene Pallette
Arnold Korff
Marina Schubert
Rosita
Stanley Andrews
Edwin Maxwell
Richard Barbee
Eric Mayne
Phillips Smalley
Michael Mark
Walter Mcgrail
George Macquarrie
Arthur Hoyt
Grace Hayle
Keith Kenneth
Dina Smirnova
Diana Lewis
Patricia Chapman
Peggy Watts
Audrene Brier
Jenny Dark
Genie Black
Fred Sullivan
Rolfe Sedan
Leo White
Crew
Charles Brackett
Emanuel Cohen
Sam Coslow
Richard Currier
Hans Dreier
Lawrence Eyre
Ernst Fegte
Herbert Fields
Harold Goodwin
James Gow
Frederick Herendeen
Edward A. Horan
Hans Kraly
William Lebaron
Harry Lindgren
Edmund North
Seena Owen
Ed Parker
Leroy Prinz
Henry Sharp
Frederick Stephani
Frank Tuttle
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Dance Direction
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film's working title was Be Careful, Young Lady. According to a news item in Daily Variety, Elissa Landi was originally slated for the female lead, but Paramount executives changed their minds and hired Metropolitan Opera star Mary Ellis instead, who made her American screen debut in this film. A June 1935 New York Times article notes that All the King's Horses was one of three films running at that time which used double identity themes. LeRoy Prinz was nominated for an Academy Award in the Dance Director category for his work on the "Viennese Waltz" number.
