John Emery (1905-1964) Donald Douglas, A Royal Scandal, 1944. The great Ernst Lubitsch was ill. The not so great Otto Preminger took over direction – ignoring The Master’s sumptuous choice of Greta Garbo (oh yeah!) and Boyer as her latest toy-boy, Alexei Chernioff. And even Emery as a cast-off lover, Variatinsky. Copyright © 2019 Crawley's Casting Calls. All Rights Reserved. Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.