A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett
Written by:
S.N. Behrman
Salka Viertel
George Oppenheimer
Directed by:
George Cukor
Release Date:
December 31, 1941
Original Title:
Two-Faced Woman
Alternate Titles:
La Femme aux deux visages
Genres:
Comedy | Romance
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 90
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Despite their differences, New York magazine editor Larry Blake and Ski Lodge, Idaho ski instructor Karin Borg fall in love and get married within hours of meeting. Those differences are Larry being urban to the core, he not having had any desire to learn how to ski until he laid eyes on Karin, while Karin is an outdoors girl to the core, her life all about healthy living. In the sober light of day, Karin learns that Larry's vow to leading a healthy outdoor life in Ski Lodge and hating his life and job in New York was just pillow talk in that he not only has no intention of giving up that life but demands she move with him back to New York in stating his life more important than hers. While this impasse seems on the surface to be the end of their marriage before it even begins, there is one problem: they still love each other. So while Larry vows to make it back to Ski Lodge to be with her as he returns to New York to resume his work, one issue after another postpones his return. As such, Karin decides to surprise him by flying out to New York, adorning herself in New York finery in the process. But when Karin catches Larry back in the embrace of a former girlfriend, playwright Griselda Vaughn who in turn knew that Larry is married but doesn't care in resuming their relationship, Larry's personal secretary Miss Ellis comes up with the idea that Karin should pose as her morally depraved but urban chic twin sister Katherine Borg to allow Karin to keep an eye on Larry clandestinely while in New York, while showing him up in the process. Complications ensue when Larry believes he has conclusive evidence that Karin and Katherine are one in the same, he who plans to show her up in return.
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Internet Movie Database | 6.2/10 |
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Rotten Tomatoes | 30% |
Awards Won: | 1 win & 1 nomination |
Art Direction:
Cedric Gibbons
Assistant Director:
Edward Woehler
Choreographer:
Robert Alton
Costume Design:
Adrian
Director:
George Cukor
Director of Photography:
Joseph Ruttenberg
Editor:
George Boemler
Hair Designer:
Sydney Guilaroff
Orchestrator:
Leo Arnaud
Original Music Composer:
Bronislau Kaper
Producer:
Gottfried Reinhardt
Screenplay:
S. N. Behrman
George Oppenheimer
Salka Viertel
Set Decoration:
Edwin B. Willis
Sound:
Douglas Shearer
Special Effects:
Warren Newcombe
Theatre Play:
Ludwig Fulda
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