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Screen Goddesses: Greta Garbo in Marie Walewska

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on BBC Two England

with Charles Boyer
For Countess Marie Walewska , like many patriotic Poles, Napoleon Bonaparte was the knight in shining armour who would save them from the Cossacks. But the Emperor, when he visits Poland, is disinclined to chase Cossacks and much more interested in pursuing the Countess. The Polish nobles urge her to make ' the supreme sacrifice ' to save her country, thus beginning one of history's great love stories.
Director CLARENCE BROWN Films: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Boyer
Unknown:
Countess Marie Walewska
Unknown:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Director:
Clarence Brown
Marie Walewska:
Greta Garbo
Napoleon:
Charles Boyer
Talleyrand:
Reginald Owen
Captain D'Ornano:
Alan Marshal
Count Walewski:
Henry Stephenson
Paul Lachinski:
Leif Erickson
Laetitia Bonaparte:
Dame May Whitty
Prince Poniatowski:
C. Henry Gordon
Countess Pelagia:
Maria Ouspenskaya
Source: Radio Times

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