Anna Karenina

Greta Garbo (title character) has left Moscow in a hurry to get home to her son and, a little less-so, her husband (Basil Rathbone) in Petersburg, not realizing that smitten Count Vronsky (Fredric March) will give chase, in the David Selznick/MGM 1935 treatment of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Hollywood Tolstoy, as Vronsky (Fredric March) meets his mother (May Robson) and Greta Garbo (title character) makes her first appearance, at the train station, her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) attending and much foreboding, in producer David O. Selznick and MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

Director Clarence Brown with a scene perhaps as Tolstoy imagined it, title character (Greta Garbo) confronted by her analytical husband Karenin (Basil Rathbone) in MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

From Tolstoy, Vronsky (Fredric March) leads military colleagues in a demanding Russian drinking game, an early scene from MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935, directed by Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo in the title role.

Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina (1935), a film adaptation of Tolstoy's classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love.