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Plot. Greta Garbo and Clark Gable in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) Helga Ohlin is an illegitimate child born and reared in an abusive home. Her uncle Karl Ohlin arranges for her to marry lout Jeb Mondstrum, but she meets Rodney Spencer, an architect renting a cabin down the road. When Rodney leaves the cabin, Jeb and Helga's father find her.
David Graham Philllips, the novelist who wrote "Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise" was murdered by a mentally unbalanced reader while walking in Grammercy Park, in New York in 1911. The novel was published posthumously, six years later, in 1917. Its subject matter was initially thought to be too risqué.
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise): Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan. Fleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue.
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- Drama, Romance
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1931-10-10
Based on the 1917 novel Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips. The novel was posthumous since Phillips, a famous muckracker, had been killed in 1911 by a mentally ill man who’d thought that Phillips had based a fictional character on his sister.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise ★★½ The Rise of Helga; Rising to Fame 1931 Garbo, the daughter of an abusive farmer, falls into the arms of the handsome Gable to escape an arranged marriage. Both stars are miscast, but the well-paced direction keeps the melodrama moving.
Apr 15, 2019 · The story of Susan Lenox is fairly well-known. Picturizing it, MGM stuck closely to the tale, modernizing it, of course, and adding a trick ending. Garbo does her utmost with the title role, a natural for her.
Feb 9, 2014 · In a Nutshell: Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931) Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard Co-stars: Greta Garbo. Synopsis: Garbo is Susan (born Helga), an illegitimate orphan raised in shame by her aunt and her cruel husband, who treats her like a slave. He picks a man for her to marry “so you won’t be without a wedding ring like your mother”.
