Yvonne (Film) – Wikipedia

Yvonne (Original title: Inspiration ) is a American feature film by Clarence Brown with Greta Garbo in the leading role. He was brought to the rental on February 6, 1931. The script is based on the novel Sappho by alphonse.

Yvonne Valbret is an artist model. She falls in love with André Montell, an emerging diplomat. The two spend idyllic hours, but in the end the relationship fails due to their dubious past. Yvonne writes a farewell letter and leaves André.

After the success of romance , who had come to cinemas in mid -August 1930, the Greta Garbo studio again used a woman with dubious lifestyle and dark past. Today you would Romanian II Name, because almost the complete technical staff that had been available during the previous production worked together again. Not for the last time Garbo was presented as a woman who only lives for and in love and moves outside of the common moral ideas. One of the best -known dialog lines of all Garbo films can be found at the beginning of Yvonne . André asks Yvonne who she is. She answers with a smile:

The studio ensured that the actress suffers again with the greatest possible effort from glamor. Gilbert Adrian designed magnificent costumes and since the film came into force before the strict censorship regulations come into force Production Code The excerpts and cleavage were made accordingly meaningful.
Today the film is primarily known for Karen Morley’s suicide scene. Lewis Stone, who plays the lover of Morley, is tired of her and gives her a check as recognition of the services. He leaves the apartment and slowly goes down the stairs. Below, in front of the door, he finds Morley body, which in the meantime has jumped out of the window.

With Robert Montgomery, Greta Garbo got an actor to his side at whom the studio put high hopes. Montgomery was on the side of Joan Crawford in the early sound film days Untamed and Norma Shearer in Their Own Desire came to fame. He was targeted as the successor to William Haines, who had fallen out of favor with Louis B. Mayer. He didn’t get along very well with Garbo. Barry Paris reports in his biography Garbo , Both had a distant relationship with each other during filming.

The production costs were $ 438,000, which was a little above the MGM average. He was fairly successful at the box office and played a total of $ 725,000 in the United States, and a further $ 402,000 in the other countries. In the end there was a cumulative box office result of $ 1,127,000 and a profit of $ 286,000. Against the background of the increasingly intensifying global economic crisis and given the not very original topic, this was an acceptable result.

In the New York Times, Mordaunt Hall wrote benevolent words for the main actress on February 9, 1931:

1. ↑ I’m just a nice young woman. Not too nice. Not too young.
2. ↑ Greta Garbo, alluring as ever […] is first beheld with a fluffy coiffure, apparently to symbolize Yvonne’s nature, but as time goes on and she becomes more subdued through her love for André, her hair is dressed more conservatively. Miss Garbo makes a stunning figure.