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(1930s) Anna Karenina
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Movies
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Anna Karenina
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<p>(September 9, 1935)
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<p> Anna Karenina is the third cinema version of Count Leo
Tolstoy's masterpiece. The current edition substitutes a
thoroughly sane characterization of the hero by Fredric March
and a decent, if not altogether unwavering, respect for the
intentions of its original. The second and third versions of
Anna Karenina still have two important things in common. These
are a superb portrayal of Anna by Greta Garbo and a story
which,like many masterpieces of the world's literature, could
scarcely have been better suited to the purposes of Hollywood
if it had been written by six famed screen writers.
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<p> Considered as a reproduction of a celebrated novel, Anna
Karenina is intelligent, reasonably faithful and less likely to
arouse squeals of affected agony from literary hair-splitters
than any other recent effort of its king. Considered on its own
merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo
has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight
millions of cinemaddicts who have never heard of Tolstoy and
could not spell out his stories if they had.</p>
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