The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."
Mack Sennett
Writer
Edward F. Cline
Director

Ben Turpin
Prince Nikolo

Madeline Hurlock
Madeline - Lady-in-Waiting

Dave Morris
Grand Duke Ludwig

Blanche Payson
Hilda - Princess of Amazonia

Yorke Sherwood
Jake - King of Jestphalia

Sunshine Hart
Katinka - Queen of Jestphalia
Danny O'Shea
Baron Borax

William McCall
Minister of War

Art Rowlands
Guardsman
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