Movie disclaimers started because of Rasputin

For that bit of boilerplate, we can indirectly thank none other than Grigori Rasputin, the famously hard-to-assassinate Russian mystic and intimate of the last, doomed Romanovs. It all started when an exiled Russian prince, Felix Yusupov, and his wife Irina sued MGM in 1933 over the studio’s Rasputin biopic, claiming that the American production di... See more