Word: natasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted by the Mad Monk in Rasputin and the Empress six years...
...factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready to help Revolutionist Polivanov (M. Tarkhanov) and his girl lieutenant Natasha solidify their chapter of the underground revolutionary society. When Polivanov is wounded by police, Maxim has become responsible enough to take his place. At the end of the picture he is saying good-by to Natasha, setting off as a minor leader in the party to carry on its efforts...
Last March a London jury decided that the Princess deserved $125,000 from MGM because the cinema Rasputin and the Empress showed a "Princess Natasha" being raped by the Mad Monk of the Russian court (TIME, March 12). Princess Irina had only one connecting link with Rasputin: her husband had helped to murder him on the night...
...which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess received in addition to her cash award a stipulation that hereafter Rasputin and the Empress will only be shown with a preface explaining "Princess Natasha" is entirely fictional...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...