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Love
Director:
Edmund Goulding
(Dir)
Release Date:
2 Jan 1927
Premiere Information:
New York premiere: 29 Nov 1927
Duration (in feet):
7,365
Duration (in reels):
8
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Cast:
Greta Garbo
(Anna Karenina)
John Gilbert
(Vronsky)
George Fawcett
(Grand Duke)
Emily Fitzroy
(Grand Duchess)
Brandon Hurst
(Karenin)
Philippe De Lacy
(Serezha, the child)
Summary:
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian nobleman, falls in love with Vronsky, a young officer, forfeiting her right to her child. Realizing her tragic fate and the futility of her existence, she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a moving train.
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
(Loew's Inc.)
Distribution Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
(Loew's Inc.)
Director:
Edmund Goulding
(Dir)
Producer:
Edmund Goulding
(Prod)
Writer:
Lorna Moon
(Adpt)
Frances Marion
(Cont)
Marian Ainslee
(Titles)
Ruth Cummings
(Titles)
Photography:
William Daniels
(Dir of photog)
Film Editor:
Hugh Wynn
(Film ed)
Set Decoration:
Cedric Gibbons
(Set dec)
Alexander Toluboff
(Set dec)
Costumes:
Gilbert Clark
(Ward)
Music:
Ernst Luz
(Mus score)
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Music:
Songs:
"That Melody of Love," words by Howard Dietz, music by Walter Donaldson.
Composer:
Howard Dietz
Walter Donaldson
Source Text:
Based on the novel
Anna Karénina
by Leo Tolstoy (Moscow, 1876).
Authors:
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Copyright Claimant
Copyright Date
Copyright Number
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
9/1/1928
dd/mm/yyyy
LP24843
Physical Properties:
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Genre:
Drama
Sub-Genre:
Historical
Subjects (Major):
Infidelity
Nobility
Russia
Suicide
Note:
In an alternative ending Anna and Vronsky are happily reunited three years later, after her husband's opportune death. Greta Garbo recreated the role of "Anna" for the 1935 M-G-M production
Anna Karénina
, directed by Clarence Brown and co-starring Fredric March as "Vronsky." For information on other screen adaptations of Leo Tolstoy's novel, please consult the entry for that film in
AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40
.
Bibliographic Sources:
Date
Page
Film Daily
17 Dec 27
Variety
7 Dec 27
p. 18.
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