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Romance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clarence Brown released in USA on 26 august 1930 with Greta Garbo
Romance (1930)
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Add to a movie listRomance is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, and Gavin Gordon.
The movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon. It was . An earlier silent film also called Romance was one of the first releases by then new United Artists and starred Doris Keane, the actress in Sheldon's 1913 play.
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On New Year's Eve, Harry (Elliott Nugent) tells his grandfather (Gavin Gordon), a bishop, the he intends to marry an actress, even though that is frowned upon by his social class. However, his grandfather recounts via flashback a cautionary tale of a great love affair with a "fallen women" during his own youth.Actors
Greta Garbo
(Rita Cavallini)
Lewis Stone
(Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl)
Gavin Gordon
(Tom Armstrong)
Elliott Nugent
(Harry)
Florence Lake
(Susan Van Tuyl)
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