As You Desire Me (1932)
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.
Director: George Fitzmaurice
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Greta Garbo as Zara, a.k.a. Maria |
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Melvyn Douglas as Count Bruno Varelli |
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Erich von Stroheim as Carl Salter |
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Owen Moore as Tony Boffie |
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Hedda Hopper as Ines Montari |
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Rafaela Ottiano as Lena |
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Warburton Gamble as Baron |
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Albert Conti as Captain |
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William Ricciardi as Pietro |
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Roland Varno as Albert |
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Reginald Barlow as Dr. Reinhardt |
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Max Barwyn as Cafe Headwaiter |
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Edmund Breese as Friar |
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William Orlamond as Waiter |
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Nella Walker as Lucia Marco |
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George Davis as Salter's Butler |
| Directing | George Fitzmaurice | Director |
| Writing | Gene Markey | Adaptation |
| Writing | Gene Markey | Writer |
| Writing | Luigi Pirandello | Theatre Play |
| Production | George Fitzmaurice | Producer |
| Sound | William Axt | Music |
| Editing | George Hively | Editor |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Adrian | Costume Design |
| Sound | Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Camera | William H. Daniels | Director of Photography |
| Production | Irving Thalberg | Producer |
| Camera | Milton Brown | Still Photographer |
| Sound | James Brock | Sound |
| Directing | Cullen Tate | Assistant Director |
| Production | Benjamin Thau | Casting |
