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The Mysterious Lady
(1928) American B&W : Nine reels / 7652 feet
Directed by Fred Niblo
Cast: Greta Garbo [Tania], Conrad Nagel [Karl von Heinersdorff], Gustav von Seyffertitz [General Alexandroff], Edward Connelly [Colonel von Raden], Albert Pollett [Max], Richard Alexander [General Alexandroff’s aide]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Bess Meredyth, from the adaptation by Bess Meredyth of the novel Der Krieg in Dunkel (War in the Dark) by Ludwig Wolff. Set design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Assistant director Harold S. Bucquet. Cinematography by William Daniels. Intertitles by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Edited by Margaret Booth. / © 11 August 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25530]. Premiere 4 August 1928 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Garbo’s sixth MGM film. Photography began on 8 May and ended 13 June 1928. / Silent film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival Status: Print exists.
Listing updated: 28 February 2008.
References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 73, 302; Limbacher-Feature p. 169; Sklar-Movie p. 102; Walker-Garbo pp. 79, 83, 184: ClasIm-330 p. 46.
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