As You Desire Me
As You Desire Me

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Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. A strange man (Tony) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno. Maria, Tony claims, had her memory destroyed during a World War I invasion ten years ago. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on hi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in As You Desire Me:

Greta Garbo
Melvyn Douglas
Erich von Stroheim
Owen Moore
Hedda Hopper
Rafaela Ottiano

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Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. A strange man (Tony) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno. Maria, Tony claims, had her memory destroyed during a World War I invasion ten years ago. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

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Radio Times - 8/10 by Tony SlomanIt may be slow moving and a shade creaky today, but this Greta Garbo vehicle positively smoulders, and contains some of the most overt sensuality you're likely to see in a Hollywood movie of the period.
User Review - 10/10 by Gregory WThis is a stunning movie. Bizarre, romantic, atmospheric, and slightly disturbing. It definitely seems like the story must have been an inspiration for Hitchcock's Vertigo. This is Garbo's best performance.
User Review - 6/10 by James HVery melodramatic early Greta Garbo talkie does benefit from her presence. She does have an amazing screen aura. The story is far fetched and a bit hokey though. Still worth watching, if nothing else for the cast.
User Review - 6/10 by Van WA concise film version of Pirandello's intellectually interesting, but otherwise grossly overwritten play. Von Stroheim gives one of his rare sound film performances, with Garbo having helped him with his stuttering on the set. Garbo is Garbo, a woman who could be anybody, and in this sense, this is her quintessential role. The film was made in a hurry to take advantage of her soon-to-be expiring contract, and suffers somewhat from the rush, but remain reliable viewing thanks to its star and Nobel-winning source material.
User Review - 6/10 by Bill TSince I don't like Greta Garbo films, I had very low expectations of 'As You Desire Me'. But I was actually quite surprised at how entertained I was at this ludicrous tale of amnesia and the power of love overcoming it! Melvyn Douglas stars here as a Prince whose inheritance of a missing wife's estate will go to his sister, unless his missing wife is found, pronto. Because of this, he sends out his best friend to search for her, ending up in a sleazy bar trying to fend Garbo off from plenty of amorous suitors. Oh, and Erich Von Streinheim.. After convincing her to go off with him and re-meet her husband she honestly can't remember (she's had amnesia you see), she's off to the estate of Melvyn Douglas, who's simply thrilled with the reunion, and willing to forget little things that don't quite add up, like Garbo not remembering a thing, or how her eye color has changed. Garbo isn't convinced either, but she falls in love with him anyways. Ahh, but Eric Von Stronheim isn't too easily fooled, she knows where the actual missing wife is! Which is somewhat hilarious, I mean, why would he know that? Pretty soon, they all gather for one hooty finale which doesn't really resolve anything, but at the end, I didn't care, because I was guffawing at just how OUT THERE this was. Mevyn Douglas and Greta Garbo were okay I suppose, with Garbo still doing her mad theatrical hand gestures all over the place. But the performance here goes to Eric Von Stronheim, who's just great as Garbo's past companion willing to fight to bring her back. And get a load of those costumes! Whoa! What was Adrian smoking on the set? Love the little Cap without a lid number Garbo is wearing at the outset..
User Review - 6/10 by Private UVery melodramatic early Greta Garbo talkie does benefit from her presence. She does have an amazing screen aura. The story is far fetched and a bit hokey though. Still worth watching, if nothing else for the cast.

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