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The Scarlet Empress, the Glossary

The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 American historical drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge about the life of Catherine the Great.^[1]

60 relations: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, Alex von Tunzelmann, Alexander Korda, Alexei Razumovsky, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Archimandrite, Art, Bert Glennon, Blind man's buff, C. Aubrey Smith, Catherine the Great, Chicago Reader, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Coup d'état, Dave Kehr, Elizabeth of Russia, Elizaveta Vorontsova, Emanuel Cohen, Erville Alderson, Expressionism, Gargoyle, Gavin Gordon (actor), Gerald Fielding, Grigory Orlov, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Hays Code, Historical drama, Intertitle, Ivan Shuvalov, Ivan the Terrible, Jean Armand de Lestocq, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, John Davis Lodge, John Leipold, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Josef von Sternberg, Kremlin, Louise Dresser, Manuel Komroff, Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich, Moscow, Olive Tell, Paramount Pictures, Paul Czinner, Peter III of Russia, Peter the Great, Robin Wood (critic), Routledge, Russian Orthodox Church, ... Expand index (10 more) »
Cultural depictions of Peter III of Russia
Films about Catherine the Great
Films based on diaries
Films directed by Josef von Sternberg
Films scored by W. Franke Harling

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years...

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Alex von Tunzelmann

Alex von Tunzelmann (born 1977) is a British popular historian, screenwriter and author.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner; Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky (Граф Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Разумо́вский, Граф Олексій Григорович Розумовський; 1709–1771) was a Ukrainian-born Russian Registered Cossack who rose to become the lover, and it was suggested he was the morganatic spouse, of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia.

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Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin

Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Алексей Петрович Бестужев-Рюмин; 1 June 1693 – 21 April 1766) was a Russian diplomat and chancellor.

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Archimandrite

The title archimandrite (archimandritēs.), used in Eastern Christianity, originally referred to a superior abbot (hegumenos, ἡγούμενος, present participle of the verb meaning "to lead") whom a bishop appointed to supervise several "ordinary" abbots and monasteries, or as the abbot of some especially great and important monastery.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Bert Glennon

Bert Lawrence Glennon (November 19, 1895 – June 29, 1967) was an American cinematographer and film director.

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Blind man's buff

Blind man's buff or blind man's bluff is a variant of tag in which the player who is "It" is blindfolded.

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C. Aubrey Smith

Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (21 July 1863 – 20 December 1948) was an English Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937).

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (29 November 1690, in Dornburg – 16 March 1747, in Zerbst) was a German prince of the House of Ascania, and the father of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.

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Dave Kehr

David Kehr (born 1953) is an American museum curator and film critic.

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Elizabeth of Russia

Elizabeth or Elizaveta Petrovna (Елизаве́та Петро́вна) was Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death in 1762.

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Elizaveta Vorontsova

Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (Елизавета Романовна Воронцова; 13 August 1739 – 2 February 1792) was a Russian noblewoman and lady-in-waiting.

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Emanuel Cohen

Emanuel Cohen (1892 - 1977) was an American film producer.

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Erville Alderson

Erville Alderson (September 11, 1882 – August 4, 1957) was an American character actor, usually portraying strong-willed or wise men.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Gargoyle

In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

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Gavin Gordon (actor)

Fred Gavin Gordon (April 7, 1901 – April 6, 1983) was an American film, television, and radio actor.

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Gerald Fielding

Gerald Claude Feilmann, known as Gerald Fielding (6 July 1902 – 3 June 1956) was a British-Indian actor.

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Grigory Orlov

Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (Григорий Григорьевич Орлов; 17 October 1734 – 24 April 1783) was a favourite of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1772), state and military figure, collector, patron of arts, and General-in-Chief.

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Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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Intertitle

In films, an intertitle, also known as a title card, is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (hence, inter-) the photographed action at various points.

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Ivan Shuvalov

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (Иван Иванович Шувалов; 1 November 172726 November 1797) was called the Maecenas (patron) of the Russian Enlightenment, the first Russian Minister of Education and Active Privy Councillor (1773).

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Jean Armand de Lestocq

Count Jean Armand de L'Estocq (German: Johann Hermann Lestocq, Russian: Иван Иванович Лесток; 29 April 1692 – 12 June 1767, in Saint Petersburg) was a French adventurer who wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth.

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Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp

Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (24 October 1712 – 30 May 1760) was a member of the German House of Holstein-Gottorp, a princess consort of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage, and the regent of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1747 to 1752 on behalf of her minor son, Frederick Augustus.

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John Davis Lodge

John Davis Lodge (October 20, 1903 – October 29, 1985) was an American film actor, lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

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John Leipold

John Max Leipold (February 26, 1888 in Hunter, NY – March 8, 1970 in Dallas, TX) was a prolific American film and radio score composer.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943) is an American film critic and author.

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Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg (born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an Austrian-born filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.

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Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.

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Louise Dresser

Louise Dresser (born Louise Josephine Kerlin; October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965) was an American actress.

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Manuel Komroff

Manuel Komroff (September 7, 1890 – 10 December 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, editor and translator.

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Maria Riva

Maria Elisabeth Riva (née Sieber; born December 13, 1924) is a German-born American actress.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Olive Tell

Olive Tell (September 27, 1894 – June 8, 1951) was a stage and screen actress from New York City.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Paul Czinner

Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer.

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Peter III of Russia

Peter III Fyodorovich (Pyotr III Fyodorovich) was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when he was overthrown by his wife, Catherine II (the Great).

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Robin Wood (critic)

Robert Paul "Robin" Wood (23 February 1931 – 18 December 2009) was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Ruthelma Stevens

Ruthelma Stevens (1903–1984) was an American film actress.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Sam Jaffe

Shalom "Sam" Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films".

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Rise of Catherine the Great

The Rise of Catherine the Great (also titled Catherine the Great) is a 1934 British historical film about the rise to power of Catherine the Great. The Scarlet Empress and the Rise of Catherine the Great are 1934 drama films, 1934 films, Cultural depictions of Peter III of Russia and films about Catherine the Great.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Empress

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See also

Cultural depictions of Peter III of Russia

Films about Catherine the Great

Films based on diaries

Films directed by Josef von Sternberg

Films scored by W. Franke Harling

References