The Painted Veil (1934)

One year after 1933's Queen Christina, Greta Garbo again portrays a heroine faced with irrevocable choices, playing Katrin in The Painted Veil, an exotic love triangle loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel. The story unfolds in China, where Katrin's marriage to busy M.D. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) is in trouble. Lonely and neglected, Katrin falls in love with diplomatic attaché Jack Townsend (George Brent). When Walter discovers the affair, he takes Katrin inland to fight a cholera epidemic, maliciously thinking the disease will kill them both. But working together helps rebuild their marriage... until Townsend resurfaces. Now Katrin must choose. MGM backed The Painted Veil with a then-opulent $1 million budget, but the real attraction remains Garbo and her incomparable mystique. Said The New York Times in a review of the film: "She is the most miraculous blend of personality and sheer dramatic talent the screen has ever known."

[@jonnyqwst]

Dude was in the movie “the letter” as bette davis husband. Another stellar movie from a somerset Maugham story

[@HOE68YEN]

That's George Brent who also played the doctor in Dark Victory starring Bette Davis. He co-starred with Bette Davis in 11 movies. It is surprising to discover that he had starred with Garbo earlier in the Painted Veil. Bette herself said she had always wanted to meet Garbo but never did! George Brent famously said that 'All a leading man needs is a good haircut because the part that the audience is likely to see is the back of his head.'

[@jonnyqwst]

@@HOE68YEN You know that's amazing..i didn't get the connexion...as an old movie buff that completely went over my head. He was stellar in the BD movie "Jezebel" and one of his earlier films "baby face" as a love interest for Barbara Stanwyk. He was so convincing as an englishman I assumed it was some obscure actor that I hadn't known.

[@mythandmighty]

The husband of BD in ‘The Letter’ movie is Herbert Marshall, not George Brent.

[@jonnyqwst]

@@mythandmighty i stand corrected thank you

[@gphanisrinivasful]

​@@mythandmighty Herbert Marshall is also in this film, playing Garbo's husband.

[@silvanacapurso4275]

Splendida Greta Garbo!! Bellezza insuperabile.

[@JUANACAMI1961]

Que lastima que este en Español o subtitulada, es la unica pelicula de la Garbo que no he visto.

[@JUANACAMI1961]

En ARES, aun existe, esta Maria Waleska, El Demonio y la Carne, Mata Hari, Como tu me deseas, La Dama de las Camelias, La Mujer de dos Caras, Ninochka, aqui en KZbin no hay ninguna.

[@Themanwhocameback2]

I have seen the entire movie, and like it, but this was by far the least interesting scene.

[@QueenieNee]

What the f**.