The Painted Veil (1934)
- Directed by
- Richard Boleslawski
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 39 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman travels to China with her husband, a doctor focused on his medical work. She feels lonely and starts an affair with a diplomat.
melancholicromanticslow-burntragicemotionally restrainedvisually elegantformal
What happens
The Painted Veil is a 1934 American drama directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Greta Garbo. The film was produced by Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, with a screenplay by John Meehan, Salka Viertel, and Edith Fitzgerald, the film is about a woman who accompanies her new husband to China while he conducts medical research. Feeling neglected by her husband, the woman soon falls in love with a handsome diplomatic attaché. The film score was by Herbert Stothart, the cinematography by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons, and the costume design by Adrian. The film earned $1,658,000 at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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