As You Desire Me Overview:

As You Desire Me (1932) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by George Fitzmaurice and produced by Irving Thalberg and George Fitzmaurice.

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Pirandello play yields the odd couple of Garbo and Von Stroheim as a woman with amnesia struggles to resume life with the husband she has forgotten. A curiosity worth seeing for the early Garbo performance.

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Tony Ferrara: "Come on rex, we are going for a walk, and I want to ask you as man to dog, what color are her eyes?"


Zara: And what is it that you love about me - my mind?


Baron: Get rid of these other swine.
Zara: Other?


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Pirandello's play "Come tu mi vuoi", written by late 1929 premiered in Milan's Teatro de Filodrammatici on 18 February 1930.
According to cast member Hedda Hopper, filming of some scenes ran longer than expected because Erich von Stroheim would have trouble remembering his lines.
Greta Garbo was extremely protective of Erich von Stroheim during filming. He was suffering from depression and poor health, and on some occasions, she covered for him by claiming to be sick.
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