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...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
...Miss Garbo is cast as an Amazonish skiing instructor at a fashionable Idaho mountain resort. She meets, loves, marries one Melvyn Douglas, publisher of a Manhattan magazine called Tides and Currents. Half poet, half Napoleon, he leaves her in the snow to rush East on pressing publication matters. When he fails to return, Garbo goes after him, inadvertently poses as her own imaginary sister (a fascinating international trollop) and seduces her husband with ease. Everything ends slaphappily back in snowbound Idaho...
This withered plot permits M.G.M. to exhibit Garbo in a bathing suit, on skis, in costly modern gowns, in a new bob, dancing the conga, tipsy, etc. It supplies her with such dialogue as: "I was born old"; "I like older men; they're so grateful"; "let's drink to what you're thinking" (to Mr. Douglas, who is unquestionably thinking censorable thoughts...
Catholics struck hard last week at Greta Garbo's new film, Two-Faced Woman.* The Legion of Decency condemned it as "immoral and indecent," and Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York had his pastors tell their Sunday congregations that it is "an occasion of sin and . . .dangerous to public morals." Other bishops followed suit, and censors in strongly Catholic Boston and Providence banned...
...Faced, Woman Garbo, after marrying Melvyn Douglas, poses as her own twin sister and tries to seduce him in order to test his love. The plot has been used many times before and just as suggestive films have gone by without such strong protest. One guess why Two-Faced Woman has been singled out for condemnation: next week Catholics will be asked to take their annual pledge "to abstain from witnessing indecent motion pictures and promise to do everything possible to strengthen public opinion against the showing of immoral films." Right now a rousing condemnation of a sure...