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 THE PAINTED VEIL |
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(USA 1934)
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Der Bunte Schleier (GERMANY)
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| COMPANY | ||
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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| CREDITS | ||
Directed by Richard Boleslawski.
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| TECHNICAL SPECS | ||
85 Minutes
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| CAST | ||
Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt, Beulah Bondi, Bodil Rosing,
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| GARBO'S CHARACTER | ||
Katrin Koerber Fane
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| SYNOPSIS | ||
Katrin (Greta Garbo) marries Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) and goes with him to China. His practice keeps him busy and away from her. She meets Jack Townsend (George Brent), a diplomatic attaché, and has an affair with him. When Fane finds out, he says he is going into the interior to help stop a cholera epidemic and that Katrin must go with him, unless Townsend divorces his wife and marries her. Townsend, fearing for his career, does not commit himself. Katrin leaves with Fane, but eventually Fane's attitude changes and he asks for her forgiveness. When his work calls for him to leave the disease-infested main city, he tells her that she may return to safety. She stays on, however, and becomes a dedicated worker, helping the victims of cholera. Fane returns and finds her, and they both realize they are still in love. When he orders a district to be burned, to halt the spread of the disease, he is stabbed by an angry Chinese. Townsend arrives at the same moment that Katrin learns Fane is wounded. Katrin disregards him completely and goes to her husband, vowing to bring him back to health.
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| QUOTES FROM THE FILM | ||
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| AUDIO-FILE | ||
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| MOVIE PROGRAM | ||
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| PREMIERED/RELEASED | ||
Release Date in USA: November 23, 1934
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| PRODUCTION | ||
| Production dates: July–September 1934
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| MOVIE STILLS | ||
| The Stills were made during the production by Milton Brown . 122 Movie Stills were shot.
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| TRIVIA | ||
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| BACKGROUND STORY | ||
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| BUSINESS DATA | ||
| Budget: 947.000 Dollar.
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| PORTRAITS | ||
Clarence Sinclair Bull made the portraits of Garbo for the film on September 12, 1934.
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| REVIEWS | ||
Andre Seenwald for New York Times: |
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She is the most miraculous blend of personality and sheer dramatic talent that the screen has ever known and her presence in The Painted Veil immediately makes it one of the season's cinema events. Watch her stalking about with long and nervous steps, her shoulders bent and her body awkward with grief, while she waits to be told if her husband will die from the coolie's dagger thrust. It is as if all this had never been done before. Watch the veiled terror of her face as she sits at dinner with her husband, not knowing if he is aware of her infidelity, or her superb gallantry when she informs him of what it was that drove her into the arms of his friend, of her restlessness on the bamboo porch in Mei-Tain-Fu with the tinny phonograph, the heat and her conscience. She shrouds all this with dignity, making it precious and memorable.
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| Norbert Lusk for Picture Play: | ||
| Again Greta Garbo triumphs by the sheer beauty of herself and her spirit over a picture that is only tolerable because of what she gives to it. Magically, she makes her heroine sensitive, poetic, and soulful as only Garbo can ... of course, it is invested with Garbo's glamour, Cedric Gibbons's Oriental settings and Adrian's costumes, but it is the same story and the same set of characters which might have served Norma Shearer or Joan Crawford in their respective moods.... Garbo has never been lovelier, and her smile is a benison.
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| SIMILAR FILMS | ||
| The Painted Veil – with Naomi Watts (USA 2006)
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| FAN ART | ||
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| PICTURE FROM THE FILM-SET | ||
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| STORY FROM THE FILM-SET | ||
(in Treatment)
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| ALTERNATE SCENES | ||
| Because some preview reviewers felt the opening scenes were much too drawn out, the film was cut and some retakes were made.
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| THE ORIGINAL NOVEL | ||
| Inspired by the novel The Painted Veil (Der bunte Schleier) from W. Somerset Maugham.
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| NICI'S WALLPAPER | ||
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| DVD/VHS | ||
Available on VHS.
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SOURCE |
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Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy – by Mark A. Vieira (Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York 2005). This is the best and most accurate book about Garbo's-Films.  |
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OTHER SOURCES |
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Karen Swenson – A life Apart Barry Paris – Garbo IMDB – International Movie Database plus many other books, magazines and internet sites. |
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Film - Introduction |
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This was Garbo's only film appearance with Marshall and Brent.
