Two-Faced Woman (1941) on Netflix
Karin Borg, a ski instructor, marries magazine editor Larry Blake, who expects a dutiful wife. They separate, and she follows him to New York, posing as her own fictitious twin sister.
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Plot summary
Larry Blake edits a fashion magazine and expects his new wife to be dutiful and submissive at home. Karin Borg, a ski instructor, was an independent woman when they met during a whirlwind romance, and the couple separate. Larry goes back to New York, where he resumes his relationship with the playwright Griselda Vaughn, a woman he knew before the marriage. Karin follows him there to break up the romance and win him back. In the city she masquerades as Katherine Borg, a twin sister who does not exist, a wild and amoral modern woman, and Larry is drawn to her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two-Faced Woman (1941)
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- Greta Garbo disliked dancing, but the script's elaborate ballroom rhumba scene forced her to take lessons; she once hid from her dance instructor in a tree at her home.
- The National Legion of Decency rated Two-Faced Woman "C" for condemned, unusual at the time for a major Hollywood release, and the archbishop of New York condemned it, the first time a particular film had been singled out. Boston and Providence, Rhode Island banned it.
- After the condemnations, MGM withdrew the original cut of Two-Faced Woman and had scenes edited and reshot before the second release date; director George Cukor refused to take part in the retakes.
- Greta Garbo objected to a scene in which she wears a bathing suit and swims, and pleaded with director George Cukor to cut it; Cukor, who shared her reservations about the film, told her it had to remain.
- The studio cut a number of Constance Bennett's scenes and changed the ending because some felt that Bennett had upstaged Greta Garbo in many of their scenes together.
- Greta Garbo and MGM terminated her contract in 1942, but contrary to popular belief she did not retire because of the poor reception to Two-Faced Woman; she intended to return to films after World War II.
