The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil

1934 | 1h 23m | Drama, Romance | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

A woman is lovelessly married to a famous doctor, but is having an affair with a young politician. However, when her husband goes to China to help combat an epidemic, she chooses to go with him rather than to stay behind with her lover.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Richard Boleslawski

CAST

Greta Garbo

George Brent

Herbert Marshall

Warner Oland

Jean Hersholt

PRODUCERS

Hunt Stromberg

WRITERS

Salka Viertel

John Meehan

Edith Fitzgerald

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Alone after her sister's wedding, Austrian Olga (Greta Garbo) with her former schoolmate, Brit doctor Walter (Herbert Marshall), in Richard Boleslawski's The Painted Veil, 1934, from the Somerset Maugham novel.
Painted Veil, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) The Spell Is Broken
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Hong Kong man-about-town Jack (George Brent), giving a tour but shameless in his pursuit of newly-arrived doctor's wife Katrin (Greta Garbo), in The Painted Veil, 1934, from the Somerset Maugham novel.
Painted Veil, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Admiring Your Garden
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Left at home during a Hong Kong festival, doctor's wife Katrin (Greta Garbo) is intercepted by her unwelcome suitor Jack (George Brent), then attending together, in The Painted Veil, 1934, from the Somerset Maugham novel.
Painted Veil, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Men Ought To Be Different
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Opening scene from director Richard Boleslawski, bride Olga (Cecilia Parker), her sister Katrin (Greta Garbo), her suitor Walter (Herbert Marshall) and their parents (Jean Hersholt, Bodil Rosing), from The Painted Veil, 1934, from the Somerset Maugham novel.

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