NÄR ROSORNAA SLA UT (SWEDEN/USA 1930) - GARBO RELATED

This Swedish/American production was Greta's brother, Sven Gustafson, second film. He was credited as Sven Garbo. Infos are hard to find. It was Sven's first American film.

The English title was When Roses Bloom. Sven played a servant and the film was directed by Edvin Adolphson for Parmamount.

The film is lost.

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SUSAN LENOX - CUT SCENES (USA 1931)

Garbo spent a great deal of time in June 1931 filming scenes that were not included in the final cut of Susan Lenox.

Cut: The "goodbye scene"

 
This cut scene had Garbo saying good-bye to Clark Gable at the lodge before vanishing into the night.

Cut: Unknown scenes
   

Cut: "Welcome" scene

In this cut scene, Garbo welcomes her long-lost love to a dinner party in her penthouse. Eddie Kane and Hale Hamilton watch from the right. The dinner scene, in which Gable realizes that Garbo is a kept woman, was shot twice.

Cut: The "hide" scene
This cut scene with an unidentified actor was part of a sequence in which she hides out from Clark Gable.

Cut: Unknown scene
   

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SUSAN LENOX - SCRIPTED BUT NOT FILMED 

The orginal script also had some interresting scenes which were written by MGM contract writers.

One of the scenes from the script had the hapless Susan Lenox forced into a relationship by a sleazy carnival owner who tells her to get ready for bed. “There's a pint of gin with your name on it under your pillow,” he says. “Snap into it, baby.”

But the material was unacceptable and the scene was never filmed.

MATA HARI – CUT SCENES

(in Treatment)

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QUEEN CHRISTINA – ALTERNATIVE ENDING AND SCENE WITH LAURENCE OLIVIER (USA 1933)

An alternative ending was filmed but never used.

(in Treatment)

This is the scene (in Treatment) that originally ended Queen Christina. To avoid depressing the audience, Mamoulian completely rewrote it, removing lan Keith and reviving John Gilbert.

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THE PAINTED VEIL - CUT SCENES (USA 1934)

(in Treatment)

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CAMILLE - THALBERG'S VERSION (USA 1936)

While producing Camille, producer Irving Thalberg died. After filming was ended and post-production began, Mayer assigned Bernard Hyman.

He was now the films new producer. Hyman arranged re-takes, cut some scenes or edit scenes from the original Thalberg produced film. It is not exactly known which scenes are cut.

It is said that this new version was setting up the characters too well. Some thought it was pure boredom and Camille would become an ordinary costume picture.

Long, pointless scenes had taken the place of the precise, neatly interlocking ones of the first version. Motivations were changed too. Scenes showing the Armand's jealousy were cut. He was now the same old dreary Armand Duval from the novel.

It is said that the preview of this “new” version was a disaster. But for unknown reasons this version was released.

The original Thalberg version was never released and it is not known how much of his produced footage was edited into a full film. It is not known what happened to his produced footage and to the edited material. It may was destroyed.

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CAMILLE – ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS (USA 1936)

Thalberg died and Bernard Hyman was assigned as the new producer. Hyman arranged re-takes and re-wrote the ending.

Two alternate endings for the death scene were written. Three alternate endings were filmed during the re-takes.

The first had Garbo in bed (similar to the original Thalberg produced version). She had some more words to say before she died.

In the second she had less words to say before she died on the bed.

In the final and third re-shot, Garbo lowly slipped away in Armand's arms. This is also the version which was used for the final version of the film.

The two other alternative takes are lost, destroyed or unreleased.

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CAMILLE - CUT SCENES

(in Treatment)

CONQUEST - SCRIPTED BUT NOT FILMED

(in Treatment)

NINOTCHKA - SCRIPTED BUT NOT FILMED

(in Treatment)

NINOTCHKA - CUT SCENES

Filming ended on July 28, and news began to spread that Garbo and Lubitsch had made a superlative movie. It is said that the late-August preview was a little worrisome because Garbo's female co-star Ina Claire had stolen some scenes.

So Lubitsch cut two of Ina Claire's scenes and then brought her back to shoot transitional material. It is not known if those scenes  do still excist somewhere.

NINOTCHKA - CHANGED SCENES

In Ninotchka, three scenes were changed in the course of shooting. They involved changes in Garbo's wardrobe, which looked drab in the rushes.

The white tulle gown

She was given a stylish Russian blouse for the retake of her first scene in Leon 's apartment, and a luxuriant off-the-shoulder evening gown made of white tulle for the nightclub scene, which was first shot with a high-necked crepe dress.

TWO-FACED WOMAN – CUT SCENES

(in Treatment)

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