A Woman of Affairs
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Greta Garbo picture was nominated for best writing at the 2nd Academy Awards, though the writing process in particular seems to have been fraught. The story of the film had been sanitized for contemporary sensibilities, removing all mentions of homosexuality, heroin use and syphilis that were present in the novel. The picture was a critical and box office success on release, so it probably felt like a wise decision to the producers in retrospect.
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A Woman of Affairs (1928) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Clarence Brown
- Starring
- Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hobart Bosworth, Dorothy Sebastian, Gertrude Astor
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