A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
- 6.9
- 1926
- Released
- 1h 27m
Greta Garbo
Leonora Moreno
Ricardo Cortez
Don Rafael Brull
Gertrude Olmstead
Remedios
Edward Conelly
Pedro Moreno
Lucien Littlefield
Cupido
Martha Mattox
Doña Bernarda Brull
Lucy Beaumont
Doña Pepa
Tully Marshall
Don Andrés
Mack Swain
Don Matías
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Salvatti
Lillian Leighton
Isabella
Mario Carillo
King of Spain (uncredited)
André Cheron
Man in Audience (uncredited)Jocko the Monkey
Jocko (uncredited)
Dorothy Sebastian
Woman in Audience (uncredited)Viola Webster
Young Woman at Cafe Americain (uncredited)Released
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- #opera
- #unrequited love
- #wedding
- #silent film
- #valencia, spain
Reviews
It is quite risky to make a silent film about an opera star - so much of the passion and power of the piece must surely come from the singing? Well Greta Garbo gives it a damn good try here - and pretty much pulls it off as "Leonora", the young girl in love with the son of the local landed gentry "Don Rafael" (Ricardo Cortez). His rather imperious mother "Doña Bernarda" (Martha Mattox) is having n