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[1934] 50 TLR 581 (CA). The claimant, Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupoff of Russia, bought an action against the defendant filmmaker in Defamation. Her claim was that in the film Rasputin and the Empress, she was recognizable in the character of the princess Natasha, who was seduced by the mad monk. The defence included, among other things, a claim that the princess had not been seduced, she had been raped. So, even if the character of Natasha was recognizable as Irina, no blame could be attached to her, and the depiction was not defamatory. However, the Court of Appeal found that she had been defamed. While a statement that a person had been raped might not fall within the traditional formula of 'exposing the claimant to hadred, ridicule, or contempt' -- it might evoke sympathy rather than any of these reactions -- it was still damaging to a person's reputation. A better test was whether the defamation could cause the claimant to be 'shunned and avoided'.