The Temptress
About The Temptress
At a masked ball in Paris, Elena tells the Marquis de Fontenoy she does not love him and meets the Argentine engineer Manuel Robledo in the garden. They unmask, and he gives her a ruby ring. She says she belongs to no one. At a dinner Fontenoy toasts her as the Temptress, blames her for his ruin, and pulls the jewels from her neck, saying he paid for them.
Cast & crew
More about The Temptress
Mauritz Stiller was assigned to direct Greta Garbo's second MGM film and was taken off it. Fred Niblo replaced him. Irving Thalberg produced. Dorothy Farnum wrote the script from Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's 1922 novel La Tierra de Todos. William H. Daniels and Tony Gaudio photographed it. Lloyd Nosler edited. MGM released it on 3 October 1926. Wikipedia lists the budget as an estimate of $669,000.
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William H. Daniels and Tony Gaudio photographed the masked ball and the later Argentine scenes.
Music
The English Wikipedia infobox credits Michael Picton with the music.
Notes
- Greta Garbo plays Elena. Antonio Moreno plays Manuel Robledo. Marc McDermott plays Fontenoy.
- Lionel Barrymore plays Canterac. Roy D'Arcy plays Manos Duras. Armand Kaliz plays the Marquis de Torre Bianca.
- Stiller has an uncredited bit apart from the directing credit he lost.
- Wikipedia's music credit is Michael Picton.
Scenes
- Robledo gives Elena a ruby ring in the garden after they take off the masks.
- Fontenoy pulls the jewels from her neck at the dinner.
Influenced by
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel La Tierra de Todos (1922)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Temptress (1926).webm)
Quotes
Fontenoy's toast calls her the Temptress, "who asks for nothing -- but takes all a man can give -- and more!
