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As You Desire Me (1932)
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28 May 1932 (USA)
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Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter...
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Botched effort with fine Garbo performance and script.
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(Complete credited cast)| Greta Garbo | ... | Zara aka Maria | |
| Melvyn Douglas | ... | Count Bruno Varelli | |
| Erich von Stroheim | ... | Carl Salter | |
| Owen Moore | ... | Tony Boffie | |
| Hedda Hopper | ... | Ines Montari | |
| Rafaela Ottiano | ... | Lena | |
| Warburton Gamble | ... | Baron | |
| Albert Conti | ... | Captain | |
| William Ricciardi | ... | Pietro | |
| Roland Varno | ... | Albert |
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70 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Although Erich von Stroheim was barred from the MGM lot by studio head Louis B. Mayer and production head Irving Thalberg, he was hired for the role of Karl Salter at the insistance of Greta Garbo, who threatened to quit otherwise.
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This is rather a botched effort. Fitzmaurice is not a good director. He allows von Stroheim to act badly, Douglas and others to overact badly, but does turn a fascinating play into an intriguing script and give us another fine Garbo performance. She is excellent in the lead - it's a film that cried for a remake later in the forties but never got it. As a drunken cabaret singer in the initial scenes, Garbo in a blonde wig is a comic revelation. Interesting to note that von Stroheim has no accent at all, in fact he can barely read his lines, he is as talentless here as an actor as someone who has never been on stage before in his life. He even pronounced "Maria" as if it were "Mareer." Isn't that Douglas in the audience by the pillar in the initial scene? - either that or a look alike double. His character should not be present at that moment. Available on MGM/UA video.