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	Princess Caraboo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sketch of Princess Caraboo, by Edward Bird.
		Princess Caraboo (1791 - January 4, 1865), a noted impostor, pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some time.
		Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, at http://www.resologist.net/carabooa.htm
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Caraboo (621 words)

	Princess Caraboo
		She revealed that Caraboo had recently been employed as a servant at her house, where she had entertained the children by speaking a strange, nonsense language of her own creation, and that her true name was Mary Baker, daughter of a cobbler in Witheridge, Devonshire.
		As Princess Caraboo, she appealed to the aesthetic of Romanticism that was emerging in Europe (expressed through the work of artists such as Byron, Keats, and Shelley).
		Princess Caraboo's fame preceded her to America, and upon her landing she was besieged by curiosity seekers.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /pcaraboo.html (1197 words)

	Princess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or her daughters, women whose station in life depended on their relationship to a prince and who could be disowned and stripped of the title if he so chose.
		In some cases then, a princess is the female hereditary head of state of a province or other significant area in her own right.
		Widely used as a term of endearment, "princess" has also devolved in mostly American usage to mean any woman of exceptional popularity, such as the "princesses" of high school prom courts and beauty pagents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess (806 words)

	Princess Caraboo
		Princess Caraboo (1791-1864) was a lady impostor who pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some time.
		All they could find was that she called herself Caraboo and that she was interested about Chinese imagery.
		According to Eynesso, she was princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Princess_Caraboo.html (502 words)

	Charity's Place.com > Princess Caraboo
		Upon return to the manor, she is treated as a princess, though the servants (and the house valet in particular) believe her to be a masterful deceiver in some delightful game.
		In the meantime, England is convinced of Caraboo's heritage by the prestigious Professor Wilkinson (John Lithgow), a student of foreign traditions, and she is welcomed into society.
		Caraboo is seen now and again wailing and chanting in religious ceremonies that often take place on the roof.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/princesscaraboo.htm (607 words)

	The Princess Caraboo hoax
		She was a princess from an island called Javasu, who'd been abducted from her homeland by pirates and taken on a long, difficult journey, which ended in her escaping by jumping overboard in the Bristol Channel and swimming to the shore.
		She fenced and used a home-made bow and arrow with great skill, danced exotically, swam naked in the lake when she was alone, and prayed to her supreme being 'Allah Tallah' from treetops; all the while maintaining her unusual eating and drinking habits and strange language.
		Caraboo duly responded to the attention with increasingly exotic behaviour and elaborate language, and also provided the full, dramatic narrative of her abduction by pirates from her native Javasu.
	www.mysteriouspeople.com /Caraboo1.htm (1675 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Princess Caraboo \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		An elegant parable, decked out as a lavish period piece, "Princess Caraboo" is the story of a young woman (Phoebe Cates) who is arrested as a vagrant and threatened with imprisonment in 1817 England.
		Eventually, it is determined that the young woman is trying to convey her story, that she was kidnapped by pirates from a foreign royal household and escaped in a shipwreck off the coast of England.
		The "Anastasia"-"Pygmalion"-like mystery of whether Princess Caraboo is the real thing or a fake is held very well throughout the majority of the picture, and the ending is satisfying and justly romantic.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1465,00.html (332 words)

	Princess Caraboo (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Through signs and gestures she claimed to be a princess from an island called Javasu, who had been kidnapped by pirates and escaped.
		Her story was revealed as a hoax after a local woman saw her face in the newspaper and recognized her as a former tenant.
		Princess Caraboo is one of those films for all ages and with a superb cast.During the King George III's court,beggars and all kinds types of vagrancy were punished with death or prison.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110892 (414 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PRINCESS CARABOO is based on an actual event in early 19th Century England, involving a young woman (Phoebe Cates) who is found wandering the countryside.
		In one of the film's best sequences, Princess Caraboo is the guest of honor at a party hosted by the Prince Regent (a wonderfully foppish turn by comic John Sessions), and the lords and ladies end up following her around in a thoroughly silly native dance.
		PRINCESS CARABOO is patient enough in establishing its sense of time and place that it might seem a bit slow to viewers seeking a fantasy romp.
	www-static.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/28/2895 (783 words)

	PRINCESS CARABOO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Princess Caraboo", a true story set in 1817 about a woman whose language no one seems to understand but who appears to be descended from royalty, tries to strike the middle ground between what adults and what kids should like.
		Despite the language barrier she is able to convey that her name is Caraboo and it is inferred, because of gestures and other attempts at speech, that her father is a king.
		Still, "Princess Caraboo" does succeed in effortlessly bridging the generation gap, a feat managed by scare few non-Disney films.
	www.xmission.com /~gregorys/reviews/princess.htm (486 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Tiara trials
		We simply follow Princess Ann, the most elegant fish out of water ever, as she experiences the (to her) unknown joys of getting her hair bobbed, ordering a gelato to cool off and smoking her first cigarette while watching the city from a cafe table.
		While "Roman Holiday" is the story of a princess who dreams of being an ordinary girl, 1994's "Princess Caraboo" is the flip side, the tale of a seemingly ordinary girl whom everyone wants to believe is a princess.
		"Princess Caraboo" has some choice supporting roles for the likes of John Lithgow -- touching as only someone truly silly can be, playing an expert convinced Caraboo is a fake but winding up thoroughly smitten by her -- and Kevin Kline, who struts through the movie in an embroidered pillbox fez as Hughes' Greek servant.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/tayl/1998/08/04tayl.html (1134 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Princess Caraboo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Princess Caraboo is a sweet-natured fable that comes under the heading of good, old-fashioned movie making — a pleasurable diversion made for lighthearted family entertainment.
		Unable to understand Caraboo's strange speech, the Worralls surmise (with the help of an eccentric scholar wonderfully played by a bumbling John Lithgow) that Caraboo is a princess from the East Indies.
		Soon Caraboo is the talk of the town and the foppish upper-class members vie for her time and attention.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/p/princesscaraboo.q.shtml (346 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Princess Caraboo
		Supposedly based on a true story, Princess Caraboo tells the tale of an exotic-looking young woman (Phoebe Cates), who is found on the road and mistakenly arrested for begging.
		Kevin Kline's character has such an early antipathy for Caraboo that it makes for unintentional humor when you realize the two are really married, but he never lets you in on the joke.
		Princess Caraboo certainly deserves watching, and at the retail price of $19.98 the cost is low, but the panandscan transfer should dissuade all but those who actually like losing much of the picture they are watching.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/princesscaraboo.php (915 words)

	TFTF: The Charles Fort Files
		Her name was Caraboo, and one day while walking in her garden in Java, she was seized by pirates, who carried her aboard a vessel, from which, after a long imprisonment, she escaped to the coast of England.
		If the elaborate story of the Javanese Princess had been attributed to a girl who had told no understandable story of any kind, it seems to us to be worthwhile to look over the equally elaborate confession, which has been attributed to her.
		Caraboo was shipped away on the first vessel that sailed to America; or, as told in the pamphlet, Mrs.Worrall, with forbearance and charity, paid her passage far away.
	www.dragonrest.net /fortfiles/famous.html (3439 words)

	PRINCESS CARABOO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I have had a special interest in the PRINCESS CARABOO HOAX of 1817 ever since I found that MARY WILCOCKS who carried out the deception featured in my family tree.
		A gentleman who had made several voyages to the Indies claimed to have extracted from her signs, gestures and articulation that she was CARABOO, a princess of Javasu in the Indian Ocean who had been carried off by pirates by whom she had been sold to the captain of a brig.
		In 1994, a film “PRINCESS CARABOO” was made in England by an American company and shown in America, the United Kingdom and Australia.
	www.btinternet.com /~b.spaughton/caraboo.html (697 words)

	Princess Caraboo Comments
		Incidentally, the late John Wells, who wrote the Caraboo movie and the book quoted in your newsgroup, and I met up while he was filming his story, and talked about Caraboo like she was a shared old friend.
		The reason for this, is that Princess Caraboo's grave is in danger of being buried under tarmac.
		I'm sure it is pure coincidence, especially since the Princess Caraboo hoax was confessed to, but the word for her God, "Alla Tallah", is in fact an Arabic phrase used by Muslims quite often.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /comments/caraboo.html (634 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PRINCESS CARABOO is based on a true story from the early 1800s in rural England.
		The princess comes to live in a large manor house where the butler (played very funnily by Kevin Klein) does not believe her, but the owners (Jim Broadbent and Wendy Hughes) do.
		PRINCESS CARABOO runs 1:34 and is rated PG for a five-second 3/4 naked leg scene.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /computing/classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/35/3504 (492 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Princess Caraboo
		Worrall that the Princess came from the Island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean, but that pirates had kidnapped her.
		Neale ended the fantasy when she proved that Princess Caraboo was in fact Mary Baker, a recent employee who had entertained the children with a strange nonsense language.
		But Princess Caraboo's popularity did not end immediately, like Napoleon she became an example of someone who had gotten into high society not through family ties but through her own efforts.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A827985 (498 words)

	Princess Caraboo
		As they think they are discovering more about her origins, they conclude she is of royal personage from the East, and soon, she is being dealt with as a Princess.
		Kevin Kline is a delight as a Greek butler, and a real Doubting Thomas of the Princess and her story.
		This is most noticeable in the beginning of the film, as the English countryside is where the Princess is discovered.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/pcaraboo.html (537 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		She is taken in by the Worralls (Broadbent and Hughes), social-climbing members of the local gentry, who dress her in a turban, call her Princess Caraboo, and treat her like royalty.
		Caraboo becomes the darling of the demimonde and dances with princes and turns most mortal men to mush.
		Princess Caraboo is generally charming and sunny, a family-oriented period comedy.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:138455 (472 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Princess Caraboo (1994)
		Princess Caraboo stars Phoebe Cates as a mysterious young woman who turns up in the English countryside, apparently unable to speak or comprehend the English language.
		The movie is based on one of the most famous hoaxes of the early nineteenth century, though a number of details and names are changed in order to provide a coherent narrative and a romantic element absent from the truth of the matter.
		Princess Caraboo is a well-meaning but superficial account of one of the great hoaxes of the early 1800's.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1149 (808 words)

	Princess Caraboo Movie: Princess Caraboo DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her arrival in a British village in 1817 caused quite a stir in the British aristocracy.
		Princess Caraboo is kidnapped from her Pacific island palace of luxury and escapes a pirate's ship, swimming for her life into an English village where nobody knows her name and her language.
		It takes time, and time again for her to tell her story with her hands and eyes, and slowly, the village people begin to understand, to disbelieve and to fall in love with the elusive and beautiful royal femme.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/043396062931IE (204 words)

	Caraboo: A Hypertext Edition of John Matthew Gutch's Narrative
		He brought with him to Knole a Malay crease (or dagger) which Caraboo with great animation recognised as belonging to her country; and her desire to have it in her own possession was extreme, but from prudence it was denied her; this denial seemed only to increase her desire.
		Proud of, and conscious, that on this occasion her powers of deception had surpassed all former exertions, she was at the same time equally conscious, that as her fame was extending, the hour could not be far off, when the developement of such a scene of duplicity must arrive.
		Before the departure of Caraboo, the public curiosity to gain a sight of her was rather increased than diminished.
	www.resologist.net /carabooa.htm (16957 words)

	Review: Princess Caraboo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There's a subplot about crooked bank dealings, a long-winded examination of the Princess' authenticity by a local "expert" (John Lithgow), and a tediously overblown sequence in which Caraboo is introduced to the Prince Regent.
		She is effectively mysterious and equally acceptable as either a foreign princess or a lower-class pretender.
		Although Princess Caraboo tries a lighter approach to a subject dealt with more seriously by The Return of Martin Guerre and its American remake, Sommersby, the issue of the central character's legitimacy is similar.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/princess_caraboo.html (448 words)

	Dougray Scott Princess Caraboo
		Wearing a turban and speaking a language no one has heard before, the exotic stranger, whose name seems to be Caraboo, completely baffles everyone she meets.
		Worrall, that she is a Princess from a far off land.
		Princess Caraboo's real name has been reported as Mary Baker and Mary Willcocks.
	www.dougrayscottinfocus.com /pc/princess_caraboo2.htm (561 words)

	phoebe-cates.com - Fanpage - Princess Caraboo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging.
		But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land.
		She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige.
	www.phoebe-cates.com /content/view/20/24 (76 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Princess Caraboo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1817, a beautiful and exotic woman (Phoebe Cates) calling herself Caraboo is found in a field outside an English village.
		Worrall (Wendy Hughes) is convinced that Caraboo is an East Indian princess who has escaped from a slave trader's ship.
		While Caraboo wins over high society, Frixos (Kevin Kline), the butler, remains skeptical about her background, and Gutch (Stephen Rea), a local journalist out to find the truth, falls in love with her.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_751.html (191 words)

	Caraboo: A Hypertext Edition of John Matthew Gutch's Narrative (Illustrations) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Branwhite's portrait of "Caraboo." A copy of this was roughly engraved as the frontispiece of Mr.
		Bird's portrait of "Caraboo" in the clothing that she made as part of her "native" costume.
		The lettered reader will perceive a few perfectly-formed and conjoined Arabic characters; it need not to be added, that she copied them from those which some Oriental Scholar wrote before her." Copied from page 58 of Mr.
	www.resologist.net /caraboob.htm (248 words)

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