March 12, 1970

Rasputin And The Empress (1932) **

This Hollywood version of Rasputin's story was so inaccurate that his assassin, Prince Yusupov, actually sued the studio in a British court and won, forcing all subsequent films (whether inspired by true stories or not) to carry this now-classic disclaimer: "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental".