Movie Reviewed: The Temptress (1926), starring Greta Garbo
The passion for Elena
MGM Studio picked Ibanez's novel for Greta Garbo's second film and assigned her Swedish mentor Mauritz Stilter as the director. But his slow working methods were reminiscent of recently fired Erich von Stroheim, therfore MGM quickly replaced him with Fred Niblo. The script was built around Garbo as a wicked and seductive woman with no morals. She attracted men like bees and then disgraced them, and drove some of them to suicide and murder and then led herself to the gutters. Her victims are Lionel Barrymore, Rory D'Arcy and Marc MacDermott. The story is a little depressing but Garbo looks as beautiful as ever. This movie produced much publicity and her next film with MGM Studios "Flesh and the Devil" released few months after Temptress exploded the box-office records. If you are fan of Greta Garbo, then you would certainly like this movie.
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