I was first introduced to "Conquest" in the Medved Brothers' tome "The Hollywood Hall of Shame" in which the movie gained an honorary mention as being the biggest money-loser of 1937. So when I saw it I was unexpectedly surprised- in fact I **really** liked it! "Conquest" stars not only the fabulous Scandinavian woman of mystery, Greta Garbo, but 1930s French matinee idol Charles Boyer (of "Gaslight" and "Algiers" fame) in a very entertaining and sudsy costume romance about Napoleon and a Polish countess, Marie Walewska. It's Old Silver Screen Romance at its best; gorgeous actors, spectacular sets and costumes, melodramatic delivery, violins, convenient thunderstorms, and loads of corny dialogue ("Are you real, or born of a snow drift?") You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll pine for the good ol' days when movie actors actually had charisma!

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After a brief informal meeting two months earlier when they were impressed with each other, Countess Marie Walewska formally meets Napoleon Bonaparte at a ball in Warsaw. When Napoleon notes her husband is three times her age, and as he is taken with her charms, he unsuccessfully tries to seduce her. She ignores his frequent letters and flowers until a few grim Polish leaders led by Senator Malachowski urge her to give into his desires as a personal sacrifice in order to save Poland. She goes to him despite the humiliation of her husband, who leaves for Rome to annul their marriage. They are extremely happy for a while; Napoleon divorces childless Empress Josephine and Marie eventually becomes pregnant. She is about to tell Napoleon about her baby when he tells her he decided to marry Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. He explains it will be a political marriage to insure his future son could rule securely with Hapsburg blood in him. It will not affect their relationship, he says, but Marie Walewska leaves to have her baby alone without telling Napoleon she is expecting his child.