Anna Christie (1930 film)

Anna Christie is a 1930 MGM PreCode drama film adaptation of the 1922 play of the same name by Eugene ONeill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as coproducers. The cinematography was by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and the costume design by Adrian.

Chris Christofferson George F. Marion, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge in New York, receives a letter from his estranged twentyyearold daughter Anna Christie Christofferson Greta Garbo, telling him that shell be leaving Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna to be raised by relatives on a St. Paul farmyears before, and hasnt seen her since.Anna arrives an emotionally wounded woman with a dishonorable, hidden past she has worked in a brothel for two years. One night, Chris rescues Matt Charles Bickford and two other displaced sailors from the sea. Anna and Matt soon fall in love and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to her, she is reluctant and haunted by her recent past. Matt insists and compels Anna to tell him the truth. She opens her heart to Matt and her father, disclosing her dark secrets. ........

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