Romance (1930 film)

Romance is a 1930 American PreCode film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, and Gavin Gordon.

On New Years Eve, Harry Elliott Nugent tells his grandfather Gavin Gordon, a bishop, the he intends to marry an actress, even though that is frowned upon by his social class. However, his grandfather recounts via flashback a cautionary tale of a great love affair with a fallen women during his own youth.When he wasyears old, Tom Armstrong, the son of an aristocratic family and the rector of St. Giles, meets the famous Italian opera star Rita Cavallini Greta Garbo at an evening party given by Cornelius Van Tuyl Lewis Stone. Tom falls in love with Rita even though there are rumors that she is Van Tuyls mistress. Toms family disapproves of Rita but he continues to pursue her until he discovers that she had been lying to him about the true nature of her relationship with Van Tuyl. Though he forgives and loves her, their different lives and different social class make an engagement untenable. ........

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