Susan Lenox (DVD) : her fall and rise / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Robert Z. Leonard production ; adaptation and continuity by Wanda Tuchock ; dialogue by Zelda Sears and Leon Gordon.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
"Turner Entertainment Co."--Disc surface and back of container. Based on the novel with the same title by David Graham Phillips, originally published in 1917. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931. Greta Garbo, Jean Hersholt, Clark Gable, John Miljan, Alan Hale, Hale Hamilton, Hilda Vaughn.
Summary:
Helga, a poor farm girl, runs off from the lecherous brute who means to marry her and lands in the arms of a charming neighbor, engineer Rodney Spencer. When misfortune separates them, Helga seeks refuge with circus folk, then is forced to trade her body for survival in an uncaring world. Using the name Susan Lenox, the fallen woman rises high, all the way to a Manhattan penthouse.
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