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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 10 october 1931 with Greta Garbo
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 october 1931
Length 1h16
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
OriginUSA
Themes Circus films
Rating62%
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) is a 1931 American Pre-Code film starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, based on the novel by David Graham Phillips. The film was made by MGM and was directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard. This was the only film in which Greta Garbo was paired with Clark Gable. The notoriety of the novel alone was enough for British censors to ban it from release. With a few cuts it was finally approved in the UK with a new title: The Rise of Helga.
Synopsis
Helga Ohlin (Greta Garbo) is an illegitimate child raised in an abusive home. Her family arranges for her to marry a lout, Jeb Mondstrum (Alan Hale), but she runs away and meets Rodney Spencer (Clark Gable), an architect who is renting a cabin down the road from her family's farm. When Rodney leaves the cabin, her father and Jeb find her. She runs away again and joins a circus as a dancer; she now calls herself Susan Lenox. She meets Rodney, but they have a misunderstanding and he leaves. She runs away to New York and becomes the mistress of Mike Kelly (Hale Hamilton), a politician; she meets Rodney again, but they have another misunderstanding and split. Susan then searches and finds him in South America, and finally they end up together.Actors
Greta Garbo
(Helga, aka Susan Lenox)
Clark Gable
(Rodney Spencer)
Jean Hersholt
(Karl Ohlin)
Alan Hale
(Jeb Mondstrum)
John Miljan
(Wayne Burlingham)
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