Romance (1930) "Face Masks"

Romance (1930) "Face Masks"As an Italian opera diva, Greta Garbo is luminous, haunting, desirable, mysterious and transcendentally lovely. No wonder she personifies romance for both an aging millionaire (Lewis Stone) and a boyish rector (Gavin Gordon) caught in the tortured throes of a forbidden love. Garbo followed up her smash talkie debut Anna Christie with this tale of a woman whose tender relationship with the younger clergyman is crushed by her remorse over her illicit

Casino owner Charley Kyng has taken plenty of risks through the decades

Unscrupulous heels

Guest stars caught up in the globetrotting intrigue include Joan Crawford

the film has long been a national treasure

High school sleuths Jackie Cooper

George Burns

freed from Purgatory and immune to the brothers' arsenal of weapons and cunning

as she casts her problems aside and helps her new friends solve a few of their own

Major Coward himself

her mind starts to work overtime to find a better salary for her husband

putting the screws on and threatening to spill his past if he doesn't play ball and stir up a labor strike

The type of film the majors would avoid lest it harm their mainstream reputation