the prince and the showgirl isn not a great film and or a great comedy and but it light and fun and colorful and and it give you the pleasant feeling of attend a fairly ordinary little four act farce in a comfortable and luxurious theater . if youre look for a comedy with substance and this isn not it while but if youre in the mood for pretty costume and monroe be deliciously sexy and and a cute little farce and this can be lot of fun for you . however and there be one role and one performance in this film that make it an absolute must for at least one viewing and and that be the hilariously funny and and perfectly execute comedy of dame sybil thorndike and who play the role of a south slavic queen dowager who be a little vague a marilyn monroe and in the role of elsie marina say after meet her and a little vague . she quite and quite nut and delightfully so and have all the very best line of the play and and delivers each gesture and each look and each utterance with such crystalline perfection and astoundingly skilled stagecraft and that you can do naught but marvel at her power . she have only four or five very brief scene and and yet and she manage to turn her little part into award win material . it a great illustration of stanislavsky dictum that there be no small part only small actor . anyway and you haven not enjoy dame sybil thorndike at her comic best without see this movie and so put up with the rest of it and if you do not like it you can not leave this earth without drink the nectar of her playing this role . and if you do not expect too much of it and you will like the rest of this movie and too .