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Two-Faced
Woman: Garbo's last film, in which MGM tried unsuccessfully to Americanize
her personality. Attempted chic comedy of errors is OK, but not what viewer
expects from the divine Garbo. Constance Bennett is much more at home
in proceedings, stealing the film with her hilarious performance.
This
film was rejected by the critics upon it's release in 1941, one went so
far as to say that it was "almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk"!
TWO FACED WOMAN holds up much better today, as it gives us a look at Garbo
in a lighter vein as she plays twins and tests her man's infidelity. Constance
Bennett actually steals the show with her witty and thoroughly engaging
sophisticated performance. The wooden Robert Sterling is here doing okay,
and this film benefits from Cukor's direction. All in all quite and entertaining
piece of light comedy from the century's great Bernhardt of the Silver
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