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The widow of David Furness faced a questioning world. Why should a man - happy as David was - take his own life - - ?

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Greta Garbo

John Gilbert

Lewis Stone

Michael Arlen

Marian Ainslee

Ruth Cummings

When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Clarence Brown

A Woman of Affairs

Love and desire

&apos;A Woman of Affairs&apos; had a good deal going for it. It starred the always magical Greta Garbo. It had John Gilbert as her leading man, they always worked beautifully together in the four films they did together (starting with &apos;Flesh and the Devil&apos; and finishing with &apos;Queen Christina&apos;) and Gilbert. It had Clarence Brown as director, he was not a consistent director as such but he was a sympathetic one with the right material. It had Douglas Fairbanks Jr in a more dramatic role. And it had Lewis Stone, another Garbo regular.

While not a great film as such, &apos;A Woman of Affairs&apos; is a must for fans of Garbo who gives one of her best silent film performances. This is also a good representation of how well she and Gilbert worked together, and one of her better films with Brown as director. It is not a film for anybody who likes their stories realistic and more subtle, but for beautiful filming, emotional impact and good acting, &apos;A Woman of Affairs&apos; is definitely worth seeing.

Is it perfect? No, and the story is the weak link. Not in a dull way, but it does get very melodramatic in the latter stages of the film and some parts are not just silly but sense and credulity go out of the window at times. Just didn&apos;t buy how some events happen as fast as they do here. The ending is both rushed and contrived.

Part of me did wish too that Gilbert&apos;s role was better developed and more interesting. Gilbert does very well with it but deserved more to do.

Garbo though is absolutely enchanting, she looks radiant and her presence is movingly noble and Diana&apos;s suffering portrayed with such graceful subtlety. Gilbert does well with what he has and he and Garbo match each other beautifully, never too restrained or overwrought and always sparkling. Stone is sincerely reserved as usual, while Fairbanks gives one of his better serious performances and is quite moving. Dorothy Sebastian sparkles. Brown directs sympathetically, no indifference here, and some of it is quite imaginative, the more symbolic moments not laid on too thick.

Despite the melodrama and silliness, there are many melancholic stretches handled with a lot of sincerity and not heavy-handedness and they come over as genuinely poignant and not over-bleak. &apos;A Woman of Affairs&apos; is a very well made film and quite ravishingly photographed in the best moments. Carl Davis (known for writing compositions for many silent films much later on) provides a haunting and well fitting score, even if other scores of his for other films did better at enhancing the atmosphere, action etc.

Summing up, worth seeing for Garbo especially but didn&apos;t blow me away. 7/10

'A Woman of Affairs' had a good deal going for it. It starred the always magical Greta Garbo. It had John Gilbert as her leading man, they always worked beautifully together in the four films they did together (starting with 'Flesh and the Devil' and finishing with 'Queen Christina') and Gilbert. It had Clarence Brown as director, he was not a consistent director as such but he was a sympathetic one with the right material. It had Douglas Fairbanks Jr in a more dramatic role. And it had Lewis Stone, another Garbo regular.

While not a great film as such, 'A Woman of Affairs' is a must for fans of Garbo who gives one of her best silent film performances. This is also a good representation of how well she and Gilbert worked together, and one of her better films with Brown as director. It is not a film for anybody who likes their stories realistic and more subtle, but for beautiful filming, emotional impact and good acting, 'A Woman of Affairs' is definitely worth seeing.

Is it perfect? No, and the story is the weak link. Not in a dull way, but it does get very melodramatic in the latter stages of the film and some parts are not just silly but sense and credulity go out of the window at times. Just didn't buy how some events happen as fast as they do here. The ending is both rushed and contrived.

Part of me did wish too that Gilbert's role was better developed and more interesting. Gilbert does very well with it but deserved more to do.

Garbo though is absolutely enchanting, she looks radiant and her presence is movingly noble and Diana's suffering portrayed with such graceful subtlety. Gilbert does well with what he has and he and Garbo match each other beautifully, never too restrained or overwrought and always sparkling. Stone is sincerely reserved as usual, while Fairbanks gives one of his better serious performances and is quite moving. Dorothy Sebastian sparkles. Brown directs sympathetically, no indifference here, and some of it is quite imaginative, the more symbolic moments not laid on too thick.

Despite the melodrama and silliness, there are many melancholic stretches handled with a lot of sincerity and not heavy-handedness and they come over as genuinely poignant and not over-bleak. 'A Woman of Affairs' is a very well made film and quite ravishingly photographed in the best moments. Carl Davis (known for writing compositions for many silent films much later on) provides a haunting and well fitting score, even if other scores of his for other films did better at enhancing the atmosphere, action etc.

Summing up, worth seeing for Garbo especially but didn't blow me away. 7/10

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