IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021310/?ref_=fn_al_tt_9
IMDB rating: 6,1
Director: Clarence Brown
Main Cast: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
"Although Greta Garbo in her 17 year-long Hollywood career (1925-1941) made 7 movies with the director Clarence Brown, the ones that have remained popular till our modern era of technical effects and shallow actions are only three: Flesh and the devil (1926), Anna Christie (1930) and Ana Karenina (1935). Indeed, those movies deserve appreciation since each of them carries something special deeply associated with certain moments in both MGM's history and Garbo's career. Yet, the early talkie that Garbo made soon after her introduction to sound is almost a forgotten, yet a very beautiful movie, Romance.
It is a film loosely based on the life of the opera singer Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944), a film in which, perhaps, not much happens but it offers everything that may be considered subtle, genuine, touching and beautiful, everything that may supply us with an affectionate journey into the old days of cinema when the cast were a true elite of artists.
So this time Greta Garbo stars as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her. She admits that she had been the kept woman of an older man and when she returns to her former lover, her visit is misinterpreted by the priest as a liaison.
Garbo was Oscar nominated for this role in 1930 along with her role of Anna Christie, but lost to Norma Shearer."
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