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Tony (Ramon Novarro), an Italian puddler with an accent who goes to New Haven on a scholarship, is a boor whose one asset is knowing how to play fine football. Everyone heartily hates him-everyone except his roommate and Rosalie (Madge Evans), the daughter of the chairman of the steel company for which Tony used to work. Even she is shocked when he suggests they spend some time at a secluded inn. But when he plays through the Harvard game all the while threatened with appendicitis, and almost dies therefrom afterward, classmates & Rosalie know at last he is a true...
...hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro) if there had been a few more rooms in the Grand Hotel...
...story gets under way with Greta doing a Javanese dance very badly before an Oriental God who seems not to mind. In the audience is the somewhat greasy Ramon Novarro, who, in his Russian uniform, looks like a well-trained barber's assistant at any conceivable Ritz. He falls in love instantly with the glamorous danseurse, which she undeniably is, and spends the night with her. Finding it expedient to obtain some dispatches in his possession, she goes to him on the second night, gets the papers, but loses her heart to him, although how she can is inconceivable. Then...
...clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good-by to her under the impression that her prison is a hospital and that she is leaving him to undergo a minor operation. To reveal its tragic conclusion in no way impairs the effectiveness of this sombre and spectacular fiction. Greta Garbo...
...this picture her Swedish voice, her awning lashes, her curt gestures are somehow becoming to the abridged and euphemistic story of a Javanese dancer whose real name, according to the best authorities, was Margaret Zelle MacLeod. Good shot: two lighted cigarets in a pitch black room, where Garbo and Novarro are talking...