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Director
  
Robert Z. Leonard

Story by
  
David Graham Phillips

Country
  
United States

6.5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, Drama, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) movie poster

Release date
  
September 10, 1931 (1931-09-10)

Based on
  
novel  by David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1912)

Writer
  
Leon Gordon (dialogue), David Graham Phillips (novel), Zelda Sears (dialogue), Wanda Tuchock (adaptation), Wanda Tuchock (continuity)

Music director
  
Leo F. Forbstein, William Axt

Cast
  
Greta Garbo
(Susan Lenox),
Clark Gable
(Rodney Spencer),
Jean Hersholt
(Karl Ohlin),
John Miljan
(Burlingham),
Alan Hale
(Jeb Mondstrum),
Bess Flowers
(Dinner Party Guest)

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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) is a 1931 American Pre-Code film starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, based on the novel by David Graham Phillips. The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard. This was the only film in which Greta Garbo was paired with Clark Gable. The notoriety of the novel alone was enough for British censors to ban it from release. With a few cuts, it was finally approved in the UK with a new title: The Rise of Helga.

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Plot

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Helga Ohlin (Greta Garbo) is an illegitimate child born and raised in an abusive home. Her uncle, Karl Ohlin (Jean Hersholt), arranges for her to marry a lout, Jeb Mondstrum (Alan Hale), but she runs away and meets Rodney Spencer (Clark Gable), an architect who is renting a cabin down the road from her family's farm. When Rodney leaves the cabin, her father and Jeb find her. She runs away again and hops onto a train that has just embarked. She enters a room filled with a circus troupe. She joins them as a dancer, but writes letters to Spencer to meet her in Marquette; she now has been given the name of "Susan Lenox". While the police search for her on the train, the leader of the circus group, Wayne Burlingham (John Miljan), hides her in his quarters and then takes advantage of her. She meets Rodney in Marquette, but they have a misunderstanding, because of her indiscretions with Burlingham, and he leaves. She runs away to New York and becomes the mistress of Mike Kelly (Hale Hamilton), a politician. At a dinner party at Kelly's penthouse, Mrs. Lenox invites Spencer, falsely concerning a new contract for him. He arrives not knowing the woman he is to meet, but they have another misunderstanding, and he once again leaves. Susan desperately goes to Spencer's home, but finds that he has left without telling where. She vows to search for him, and eventually she ends up in Puerto Sacate of South America working as a dancer in a dance hall. There, she is romanced by an American, Robert Lane (Ian Keith), who arrives by yacht and wants to take her away with him and marry her. But, Susan yearns to meet-up with Spencer and vows to "rise or fall alone." A barge with men working in the swamps arrive at the port, and a group of them, including Spencer, disembark and arrive at the dance hall. Susan and Spencer meet, and after some arguing, they finally end up rekindling their relationship.

Cast (in credits order)

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  • Greta Garbo as Susan Lenox
  • Clark Gable as Rodney Spencer
  • Jean Hersholt as Karl Ohlin
  • John Miljan as Wayne Burlingham
  • Alan Hale as Jeb Mondstrum
  • Hale Hamilton as Mike Kelly
  • Hilda Vaughn as Astrid
  • Russell Simpson as Doctor
  • Cecil Cunningham as Madame Panoramia/Pansy
  • Ian Keith as Robert Lane
  • Box office

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    According to MGM records the film made $806,000 in the US and Canada and $700,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $364,000.


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    References

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