"Film historians such as Roger Fristoe, retired film critic for the "Courier-Journal" in Louisville, Kentucky, have noted similarities to the later, more highly regarded romantic comedy "Roman Holiday" (1953), directed and produced by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own.Biographer Daniel Bubbeo characterized "Princess O'Rourke" as a "fluffier" antecedent of "Roman Holiday".