Looked at with 70 years distance, the 'charming romantic comedy' involves a princess being drugged, stripped and dumped at a safe house in New York. One can imagine the developments being portrayed in a somewhat different way. And it's not to be hard on the movie - Olivia De Havilland is absolutely superb in a light comic turn - but it is interesting to see how society has changed and the little things taken for granted in the movie, such as a flight crew handing out sleeping pills to a passenger, are thoroughly anathema today. That said, it's De Havilland's performance that carries it. You can see Robert Cummings forming the light character that he would perfect to an annoying degree in the coming years.
Review of Princess O'Rourke
