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Love

Live Piano Accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film
Directed by Edmund Goulding.
With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Brandon Hurst.
US, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 82 min.
Print source: George Eastman House

One of several adaptations of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, this early Garbo silent features a classic performance by the reluctant star. A married woman falls in love with a military officer and is banished from home by her powerful husband, who tells her son that she has died. Although Garbo would gain greater critical acclaim for her role in the 1935 version of Tolstoy’s text, this version was one of her biggest commercial successes thanks in part to its memorable tagline: “John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Love!”

This rare print features both the film’s happy ending, which was released in the United States, and its tragic ending released internationally.

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