- Mata Hari (film)
Infobox Film
name = Mata Hari
imdb_id = 0023196
writer =Benjamin Glazer
Leo Birinsky
Doris Anderson
Gilbert Emery
starring =Greta Garbo Ramon Novarro Lionel Barrymore
director =George Fitzmaurice
producer =George Fitzmaurice
Irving Thalberg
distributor =MGM
released =December 26 ,1931
runtime = 89 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $558,000 (est.)"Mata Hari" is a 1931 pre-code film loosely based on the life of
Mata Hari (the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), acourtesan executed forespionage duringWorld War I . The film starsGreta Garbo in the title role. The film is credited with popularizing the legend of Mata Hari.Commercially, this was Garbo's most successful film. It was a sensation in the US, and overseas rentals, especially in Continental Europe, matched those in the US.
Cast
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Greta Garbo as Mata Hari
*Ramon Novarro as Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
*Lionel Barrymore as Gen. Serge Shubin
*Lewis Stone as Andriani (pavilion owner)
*C. Henry Gordon as Dubois (French Secret Service chief)
*Karen Morley as Carlotta (German agent)
*Alec B. Francis as Maj. Caron (Mata'a lawyer)
*Blanche Friderici as Sister Angelica (as Blanche Frederici)
*Edmund Breese as Warden
*Helen Jerome Eddy as Sister Genevieve
*Frank Reicher as The cook/spy (German captain)External links
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