Posted by Cynthia on December 31, 2012, 1:02 pm, in reply to "Russian Crown Jewels"
Regarding Romanov jewels: I was watching a bit of "Ninotchka" the other day, and we had Greta Garbo drunkenly try on the "Romanov" jewels she was trying to sell. The jewels sparkled in ways I have usually only seen in Pathé video of the British royals wearing their very real, well-documented jewels.
I mean blinding.
Does anyone know if these jewels were indeed real? I know they wouldn't have been actual Romanov jewels, but real stones?
(Cecil B. DeMille used real stones in his movies with Gloria Swanson, while other movie-makers did not necessarily.)