Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
budapest, hungary
alcoholic
pre-code
amnesiac
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.2 / 5
Cast
Greta Garbo
Zara, a.k.a. Maria
Melvyn Douglas
Count Bruno Varelli
Erich von Stroheim
Carl Salter
Owen Moore
Tony Boffie
Hedda Hopper
Ines Montari
Rafaela Ottiano
Lena
Warburton Gamble
Baron
Albert Conti
Captain
William Ricciardi
Pietro
Roland Varno
Albert
Reginald Barlow
Dr. Reinhardt
Max Barwyn
Cafe Headwaiter
Crew
George Fitzmaurice
Director
Gene Markey
Writer
William H. Daniels
Director of Photography
George Fitzmaurice
Producer
Irving Thalberg
Producer
Gene Markey
Adaptation
Luigi Pirandello
Theatre Play
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Adrian
Costume Design
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
Cullen Tate
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
4 reviews
Maranda
7.0★ · 11/23/25
Melvyn Douglas’s penciled in eyebrows really work for me
Melvyn Douglas’s penciled in eyebrows really work for me
