Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe, Josef von Sternberg, John Lodge, Louise Dresser, Catherine II, Manuel Komroff, Eleanor McGeary

The Scarlet Empress is a movie starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, and Sam Jaffe. A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.