Expensive Husbands
Your name my be Rupert...But it ought to be Bill...BILL...BILL!
1937 · 1h 2m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Bobby Connolly
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Expensive Husbands
Overview
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?
Director and cast
- Bobby Connolly Director
- Patric Knowles as Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
- Beverly Roberts as Laurine Lynne
- Allyn Joslyn as Joe Craig
- Gordon Oliver as Ricky Preston
- Vladimir Sokoloff as Herr Andrew Brenner
- Eula Guy as Trommy, Laurine's Maid
- Fritz Feld as Herr Meyer, Hotel Director
- Robert Fischer as Joseph, Rupert's Servant
- Ann Codee as Maria
- George Humbert as Giovanni
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