Queen Christina (1933)

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Queen Christina of Sweden is supposed to marry Prince Charles, a military hero. Her former lover, Magnus, wants the marriage to go through even though he knows that Christina does not love Charles. Christina decides not to marry, saying she is not ready. She learns that an ambassador from Spain, Don Antonio, is arriving and disguises herself in men's clothing to meet him at an inn. When Antonio discovers that there is no vacancy, he shares a room with Christina, who he thinks is a man. He soon realizes that Christina is actually a woman and the two fall in love. Christina wants to marry Don Antonio and go to Spain, but he learns that she is the Queen and tells her that he has been sent to arrange a marriage between her and the King of Spain. When Don Antonio meets her officially and is seen with her frequently, Magnus stirs up public discontent against him. Christina sends Don Antonio away and abdicates the throne. When she goes to meet him at the agreed upon place, she finds him dead, killed by Magnus. She leaves for Spain with his body and never returns.

Vintage magazines

Filmwelt 3, 21. Januar 1934

Photoplay , March 1936

Film programs

Books with substantial mentioning of Queen Christina

		John Howard Reid These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards, A Film-Lover's Guide to the Best of the Rest 2005

		Danny Peary Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present New York, 1993

		Jean-Pierre Frimbois Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique Alleur (Belgique), 1989

		Stanley Hochman (editor) From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940 New York, 1982

		William K. Everson Love in the Film Secaucus, NJ, 1979

		James Robert Parish Hollywood's Great Love Teams New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

		Michael Conway, Dion McGregor and Mark Ricci The Films of Greta Garbo Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973