Two of Garbo’s earliest silents, tonight’s film and The Temptress were based on his works.
Rex Ingram, who directed the Four Horsemen, also filmed Ibáñez’ Mare Nostrum, an espionage story.
Later, his plotting became more eventful, and Hollywood came calling, particularly for two Rudoph Valentino movies, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (a WW I drama which made Valentino a star) and the bullfighting story, Blood and Sand. Entre Naranjos ( Between the Orange Trees, written in 1900) was an example of this measured style. Influenced by Emile Zola, he wrote in a naturalistic style, and was interested in the intersection of nature, nurture and social and political conditions. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and was a journalist, he wrote his first novel in 1892. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a popular author writing in Spanish in the early 20th century, whose works were the source for several popular silent movies. Silent film with live music by David Drazin. Based on a popular novel by Blasco Ibáñez, and drenched with MGM’s glossy romanticism, you’ll see a star blaze to life on screen as an imperious diva struggles with her passion for a mama’s boy with bedroom eyes. Garbo is incandescent in her first American film, as a village lass transformed into a jaded prima donna with a penchant for fur trimmed evening wraps. Greta Garbo, Ricardo Cortez, Gertrude Olmstead (88 min).
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