When Rasputin and the Empress came out in 1932, it garnered mixed reviews ... sued Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), the studio that produced Rasputing and the Empress. Irina had been a Tsarist princess ...
The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting ...