Why they changed Anthony Marston to the Prince guy?

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clb1095 — 10 years ago(May 18, 2015 10:27 PM)

Why they changed Anthony Marston to the Prince guy?

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Jimmy-128 — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 01:16 PM)

Artistic license, and the ability to use Mischa Auer, who was a fairly major character actor at the time. Since his specialty was playing Russians and pseudo-Russians, the character went from English Bright Young Thing to Russian prince-in-exile.
It's the same reason they made the judge Irish: they wanted to use Barry Fitzgerald who was a major, no "fairly" about it, star at the time.

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clb1095 — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 03:41 PM)

Thank you! Very informative.

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boxerrebellion — 10 years ago(September 30, 2015 06:38 PM)

Since my best memory of Mr. Fitzgerald is from Going My Way, I was really rather disappointed
to find him to be the killer
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