Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman
Original film poster
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Written byS.N. Behrman
Salka Viertel
George Oppenheimer
Produced byGottfried Reinhardt
StarringGreta Garbo
Melvyn Douglas
Constance Bennett
Roland Young
Ruth Gordon
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Music byBronislau Kaper
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • November 30, 1941 (1941-11-30)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,247,000[1]
Box office$1,800,000[1]

Two-Faced Woman is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Greta Garbo in her final film role, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. The movie was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Garbo plays a wife who pretends to be her own fictitious twin sister in order to recapture the affections of her estranged husband (Douglas), who has left her for a former girlfriend (Bennett). The film is generally regarded as the box-office flop that ended Garbo's career in an unsuccessful attempt to modernize or "Americanize" her image in order to increase her shrinking fan base in the United States. By mutual agreement, Garbo's contract with MGM was terminated shortly after Two-Faced Woman was released, and it became her last film.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study