Comedy · United States of America · 1937 · 1h 13m

Fit for a King

Director

Cast

Joe E. Brown as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones Helen Mack as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen Paul Kelly as Briggs Harry Davenport as Archduke Julio Halliwell Hobbes as Count Strunsky John Qualen as Otto

Crew

Richard Flournoy — Screenplay

Tagline

"Fits" for the whole family

Synopsis

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.

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