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Anna Christie is a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre-Code film adaptation of the 1921 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers.
Anna Christie: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler. A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Anna Christie: Directed by Jacques Feyder. With Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel. A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Plot summary. Anna Christie is the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around. Characters. Johnny the Priest. Two longshoremen. A postman. Larry — bartender. Chris C. Christopherson — captain of the barge Simeon Winthrop. Marthy Owen. Anna Christopherson — Chris's daughter.
As a child, Anna Christie (Greta Garbo) was sent away by her father, Chris Christofferson (George F. Marion), to live with unkind relatives in Minnesota. Although she escaped her family, Anna...
Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea.
In the film's plot, 20 year-old alcoholic ex-prostitute Anna "Christie" Christofferson (or Gustafson) (24 year-old Greta Garbo), a world-weary and ailing, man-hating Swedish-American, returned home to New York after a long absence (including being raised since the age of 5 on a Minnesota farm by abusive relatives and working in a St. Paul ...
