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Release Date: 1928

Cast: Anita Louise, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Gertrude Astor, Lewis Stone, Dorothy Sebastian, Johnny Mack Brown, Fred Kelsey, John Gilbert, Hobart Bosworth, Greta Garbo

Categories: Movies, Romantic Drama, Romance Film, Film Adaptation, Melodrama, Silent Film, Drama Film

A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone. The film was based on a 1924 play by Michael Arlen, The Green Hat; as the play was considered so daring in the United States, the movie did not make any references to it and was renamed A Woman of Affairs, with the characters equally renamed to mollify the censors. This was Greta Garbo's fourteenth film and the seventh of her Hollywood career. It was also her third collaboration with John Gilbert, after Flesh and the Devil (1926) and Love (1927),... MORE

A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone. The film was based on a 1924 play by Michael Arlen, The Green Hat; as the play was considered so daring in the United States, the movie did not make any references to it and was renamed A Woman of Affairs, with the characters equally renamed to mollify the censors. This was Greta Garbo's fourteenth film and the seventh of her Hollywood career. It was also her third collaboration with John Gilbert, after Flesh and the Devil (1926) and Love (1927), her second film with director Clarence Brown, and the first of seven movies with Lewis Stone. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, for Bess Meredyth's script. In 1934, MGM made a remake of the film starring Constance Bennett, titled Outcast Lady. Diana (Greta Garbo), Nevs (John Gilbert) and David (Johnny Mack Brown) were playmates as children, members of the rich British aristocracy. Diana and Neville are in love, but his father (Hobart Bosworth) opposes the match, disapproving the Merrick family's lifestyle. Neville is thus sent to Egypt for business purposes and become LESS