As You Desire Me (1932) | |
| Director(s) | George Fitzmaurice (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | George Fitzmaurice, Irving Thalberg (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Alcohol, Amnesia, Based on Play, Pre-Code Cinema |
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As You Desire Me (1932) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by George Fitzmaurice and produced by Irving Thalberg and George Fitzmaurice.
SYNOPSIS
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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Quotes from As You Desire Me
Zara:
And what is it that you love about me - my mind?
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?"
Baron: Get rid of these other swine.
Zara: Other?
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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?"
Baron: Get rid of these other swine.
Zara: Other?
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Facts about As You Desire Me
According to cast member Hedda Hopper, filming of some scenes ran longer than expected because Erich von Stroheim would have trouble remembering his lines.
Although Erich von Stroheim was barred from the MGM lot by studio head Louis B. Mayer and production head Irving Thalberg, he was hired for the role of Karl Salter at the insistance of Greta Garbo, who threatened to quit otherwise.
Pirandello's play "Come tu mi vuoi", written by late 1929 premiered in Milan's Teatro de Filodrammatici on 18 February 1930.
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Although Erich von Stroheim was barred from the MGM lot by studio head Louis B. Mayer and production head Irving Thalberg, he was hired for the role of Karl Salter at the insistance of Greta Garbo, who threatened to quit otherwise.
Pirandello's play "Come tu mi vuoi", written by late 1929 premiered in Milan's Teatro de Filodrammatici on 18 February 1930.
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