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The Painted Veil (1934)
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23 November 1934 (USA) moreTagline:
Do not pass love by...It may never come again!Plot:
In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister's marriage and she agrees to marry her father's research associate Dr... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Three Lonely Hearts In Old China moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Greta Garbo | ... | Katrin Koerber Fane |
 | Herbert Marshall | ... | Dr. Walter Fane |
| George Brent | ... | Jack Townsend |
| Warner Oland | ... | General Yu |
| Jean Hersholt | ... | Herr Koerber |
| Bodil Rosing | ... | Frau Koerber |
| Katharine Alexander | ... | Mrs. Townsend |
| Cecilia Parker | ... | Olga Koerber, Heinrich's Bride |
| Soo Yong | ... | Amah, Fane's Servant |
| Forrester Harvey | ... | Deputy Commissioner Waddington |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert Adair | ... | Polo Player (scenes deleted) |
| Mariska Aldrich | ... | German Teacher (scenes deleted) |
| Maidena Armstrong | ... | German (scenes deleted) |
| Billy Bevan | ... | Bridegroom (scenes deleted) |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Frau Koerber (scenes deleted) |
 | Walter Brennan | ... | (scenes deleted) |
| W.H. Davis | ... | German (scenes deleted) |
| Vernon Dent | ... | Chief of Police (scenes deleted) |
| Flora Finch | ... | German (scenes deleted) |
| Lawrence Grant | ... | English Governor (scenes deleted) |
| Leyland Hodgson | ... | Polo Player (scenes deleted) |
| Otto Hoffman | ... | Husband (scenes deleted) |
| Jane Keckley | ... | German Teacher (scenes deleted) |
| Lillian Leighton | ... | German Teacher (scenes deleted) |
| Gus Leonard | ... | Major Domo (scenes deleted) |
| Jack 'Tiny' Lipson | ... | Fat Man (scenes deleted) |
| Mary MacLaren | ... | Motherly Woman (scenes deleted) |
| Robert McKenzie | ... | Jovial German (scenes deleted) |
| Phil Ormsby | ... | Polo Player (scenes deleted) |
| Jack Perry | ... | Polo Player (scenes deleted) |
| Delmar Watson | ... | Crying Boy (scenes deleted) |
| Dorothea Wolbert | ... | Stuttering Woman (scenes deleted) |
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USA:Approved (PCA #395)Fun Stuff
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Married to a distracted English scientist, a beautiful Austrian finds forbidden love beyond THE PAINTED VEIL in China.
Based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, this MGM film is soap opera of a high order, featuring excellent production values & acting. The dialogue is also refreshingly literate & thoughtful, something of a surprise in a film which might be pigeonholed as just an elaborate potboiler.
Fascinating as always, Greta Garbo is at last showcased in a film whose backdrop & setting matches her for exoticism. Enervated by the overwhelming cultural saturation of pre-war China, she seems freed to be essentially herself - shorn of all needs to bewitch - and is able to give herself over to the seriousness & drama of her character's dilemma. What the viewer is left with is one of her best performances.
The two men in Garbo's life are excellently portrayed by Herbert Marshall & George Brent. Neither characters are without faults, but the actors make them intimately human, revealing some of the loneliness in each man's heart. These actors had distinct similarities, making it something of a bold move for MGM to put them in the same film, but also enabling the viewer to understand why Garbo could love both.
Excellent support is given by gentle Jean Hersholt as Garbo's kindly father; Forrester Harvey as a happy-go-lucky embassy employee in China & Warner Oland as a sympathetic Chinese general.
Movie mavens will recognize Keye Luke as a young doctor and Mary Forbes & Ethel Griffies as British ladies in Hong Kong - all uncredited.
The Chinese scenes show MGM at what it did best - creating another world, utterly realistic, in its back lot.