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The Divine Woman

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TIME Staff TIME Magazine 09/18/2020
The Divine Woman is another vehicle for the extraordinarily tempestuous passions of Actress Greta Garbo. Go to Full Review Mordaunt Hall New York Times 07/19/2020
Greta Garbo's latest picture, The Divine Woman, has some well-staged scenes, but it is more often than not weakened by an absence of spontaneity and also because of a tendency toward hysteria in the more emotional sequences. Go to Full Review Jack Lait Variety 07/19/2020
There is considerable comedy besides the hefty emotionalism at the critical turns of the action. The photography is perfect and the scenic ambitions seem directed at realism rather than magnificence. Go to Full Review Film Daily Staff The Film Daily 09/18/2020
Seastrom's handling of it does make it fairly interesting but seldom truly absorbing. Go to Full Review Shadow Stage Photoplay 09/18/2020
[It's] well worth your while to see this production. Go to Full Review H.L. Danson Brooklyn Daily Eagle 09/18/2020
One or two flashes of good contrast throughout the picture showed the direction of Victor Seastrom, but generally The Divine Woman is anything but that. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Lorenz L 08/18/2023 All known extant prints of "The Divine Woman" were destroyed in an MGM warehouse fire in the 1960s. It is officially regarded as a "lost film". Only one reel is known to exist, with a running-time of approximately eight minutes. It can be found as a bonus feature on a DVD set of Greta Garbo silent films. The press reviews published by Rotten Tomatoes can only be from the original 1928 release of the film. I have seen the eight minute fragment, and there is certainly not enough to grasp the story of the complete film or its characters (production stills, lobby cards, and a script and/or synopsis still exist). See more 08/02/2021 It is hard to judge a film only by seeing 9 minutes (this is the duration of the surviving copy of Sjöström's romance) but "The Divine Woman" seemed to have a lot of potential to become a great romantic film, or at least an interesting, well-acted one. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Victor Sjöström

Director

Greta Garbo

Marianne

Lars Hanson

Lucien

Lowell Sherman

Henry Legrand

Polly Moran

Mme. Pigonier

Dorothy Cumming

Mme. Zizi Rouck
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Movie Info

Director
Victor Sjöström
Screenwriter
Dorothy Farnum
Distributor
MGM
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 14, 1928, Original