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As You Desire Me is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Fitzmaurice released in USA on 28 may 1932 with Greta Garbo

As You Desire Me (1932)

As You Desire Me
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Released in USA 28 may 1932
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.147363.147363.147363.147363.14736

As You Desire Me is a 1932 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the play by Luigi Pirandello released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced and directed by George Fitzmaurice with Irving Thalberg as co-producer. The adaptation was by Gene Markey, the cinematography by
William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and the costume design by Adrian.

The film stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas with Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore and Hedda Hopper. Its running time is less than 71 minutes, making it the shortest of all Garbo's Hollywood films.

This is also the only film in which Garbo appears as a blonde. It made $1,362,000.

Synopsis

Budapest bar entertainer Zara (Greta Garbo) is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter (Erich von Stroheim). A strange man called Tony (Owen Moore) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno. Maria, Tony claims, had her memory destroyed during a World War I invasion 10 years ago. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

Actors

Greta Garbo

(Zara, a.k.a. Maria)Melvyn Douglas

(Count Bruno Varelli)Erich von Stroheim

(Carl Salter)Owen Moore

(Tony Boffie)Hedda Hopper

(Ines Montari)
And :
Rafaela Ottiano
Nella Walker
Warburton Gamble
Albert Conti
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