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Mata Hari
Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro. Mata Hari is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice loosely based on the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film stars Greta Garbo in the title role. It was Garbo's most commercially successful vehicle. Mata Hari: Directed by George Fitzmaurice. With Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone. A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. Mata Hari is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice loosely based on the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film stars Greta Garbo in the title role. It was Garbo's most commercially successful vehicle. Only a censored version of the. In Paris during World War II, Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (Greta Garbo) secretly moonlights as a German spy. Using her feminine wiles to seduce French and Russian agents into bed so she can.
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Greta Garbo, C Henry Gordon and Lionel Barrymore in Mata Hari. Photograph: Rex Features War. In the film, Mata Hari moves between two fictional men: General Shubin and German spymaster Andriani. Mata Hari. Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 - 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( / ˈmɑːtə ˈhɑːri / ), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. [1] Garbo's Mata Hari, of course, was a grander and more tragic figure. Also more glamorous, thanks to the bejeweled exoticism of Adrian's costumes, which helped define the character. By the end of the film, the costumes, like the character, are pared and purified to essentials. Garbo dominated love scenes with Novarro with her usual frank eroticism. Trailer for George Fitzmaurice's "Mata Hari" (1931), starring Greta Garbo, Ramon Navarro, Lewis Stone, and Lionel Barrymore.
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Garbo, who naturally bears little resemblance to the real Mata Hari, gets to wear some outrageous costumes and perform a lurid, pre-code dance with a giant statue of the goddess Shiva. Barrymore hams it up, and Navarro makes for an unconvincing Russian. Little wonder that the role of Mata Hari fell to one of the icons of 20th-century cinema: Greta Garbo.Mata Hari's story had it all: sex, intrigue, betrayal, and death. Like the real Mata Hari, she is a woman of unusual intelligence, who, while she revels in the secret service work, chooses to be her own mistress and thus generally accomplishes more than she. As a showcase for enigmatic superstar, Greta Garbo, "Mata Hari" doesn't skimp on production values. The sets are sumptuous and exquisitely detailed, and the black and white cinematography is lushly romantic, evoking memories less of Paris than of the golden age of Hollywood film studios. The film never adds up to much, though. Indeed, the.
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