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Hollywood Impostors Slept Easy On Russian Nobility Folly
The piece recounts impostors posing as Prince Michael Alexander Dmitri Oblenski Romanoff and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch who fooled Hollywood society with fake titles and lavish tales. It follows their exposure by a real grand duchess and Hollywood lawyers, plus the man Harry Gerguson who styled himself as Prince Michael and enjoyed a chaotic string of arrests, stowaways, and escapes across cities and ships before eventual deportation threats.
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Prince Michael Romanoff
Grand Duke
Michael
John Barrymore
Marie
Harry Gerguson
Prince Michael Alexander Dmitri Oblenski Romanoff
R. H. W. Albrettondare
Michael Alexandrovitch
Hollywood
Albrextondare
Pacific Coast
Albrextondage
Tate Czar
Russia
Daly B. Robnett
C. A. A. “McGree
Los Angeles
Sand
Perm
Ural
Vienna
Nathalie Sergieva
England
Nathalie
Paris
Holywood
Princess Brassett
John
Barrymore
Eran Sks
Gerguson
Hillsboro
Lil
Prince Michael Alexander Dmitri
Oblenski- Romanoff
Foreign Legion
Se Foreign Legion
Riasputin
Gergnson
New York
France
Tony
Ellis Island
Bees Island
Prince Michael, St
Europe
St. Louis
Mede
Ellie
Island
United States