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AKA [Anna Karenina]
(1927) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Edmund Goulding

Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Brandon Hurst, Philippe de Lacy, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from an adaptation by Lorna Moon of the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Cinematography by William Daniels. Intertitles by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Edited by Hugh Wynn. / Premiere 29 November 1927 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Garbo’s fourth MGM film. Irving Thalberg scrapped the original footage shot by cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad, directed by Dmitri Buchowetski and starring Ricardo Cortez in Gilbert’s role. Norman Kerry was later replaced by John Gilbert. Photography began on 22 June 1927 and ended 25 July 1927. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Authors: Leo Tolstoy - Children

Listing updated: 15 November 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0115; AFI-F2 n. F2.3208; Baer-Film p. 9; Best-Those p. 56; Brownlow-Parade p. 578; Card-Seductive pp. 58-59; Eames-MGM p. 40; Everson-American p. 298; Fell-History p. 87; Higashi-Virgins p. 24; Kobal-Fifty p. 40; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 108; Leish-Cinema pp. 49, 57; Limbacher-Feature p. 146; McCaffrey-Guide p. 13; Shipman-Cinema p. 96; Sinyard-Silent p. 84; Sklar-Movie p. 102; Sweeney-Coming p. 126; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 26, 223; Walker-Garbo pp. 20-21, 32, 65, 69, 73, 75, 124, 184; Weaver-Twenty p. 143.