Jan 27th
Anna Karenina**
US 1935. MGM. 95m. bw

A influential minister's wife embarks on a tragic love affair with a dashing count, to the cost of her marriage and her son.
Economically adapted but grandly staged version of Tolstoy, with Hollywood's idea of Russians in a wild variety of international accents.

Written by: Clemence Dane, Salka Viertel, S.N. Behrman, from the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Producer: David O. Selznick.
Director: Clarence Brown.
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Reginald Owen, Phoebe Foster, May Robson, Reginald Denny, Ethel Griffies.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music: Herbert Stothart.
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope, Edwin B. Willis.