In two Lombard \ MacMurray films, MacMurray plays a musician. In Swing High\Swing Low his character plays the Trumpet. MacMurray did play the Saxophone. I wonder if that had anything to do with these roles. The Princess Comes Across is an interesting film with its blend of comedy and drama.Cinemaspeak59 wrote: ↑August 28th, 2023, 1:56 pm The Princess Comes Across (1936) starts as a romantic comedy but halfway through takes a turn into Agatha Christie-style whodunnit (and a good one at that). An added delight: it takes place on an ocean liner. Everything works quite nicely thanks to Carole Lombard as a struggling Brooklyn actress impersonating a Swedish princess (Hello, Greta Garbo!), and Fred MacMurray as a concertina-playing passenger who joins Lombard in detective work.
An unrelated fact about MacMurray: In 1943, his annual salary had reached $420,000, making him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and the fourth-highest-paid person in the nation.