“The Painted Veil” quotes
(1934)Plot – Catherine follows her husband Walter Fane to China. He's a doctor but he's too absorbed by his studies to stay with her, so she spends her time along with an officer of the Embassy, falling for him. Fane discovers her and agrees to divorce if the young diplomat will marry Catherine. The officer refuses and Catherine is forced to follow her husband, learning to love him again.
All actors – Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt, Bodil Rosing, Katharine Alexander, Cecilia Parker, Soo Yong, Forrester Harvey, Robert Adair, Mariska Aldrich
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“Stay full of this. Leaves no room for the cholera.”
“Why can't we be unhappy together?”
“I like China very much. I like America too. I like all the places I haven't been.”
“Right now you and I are closer than we ever were... and further apart.”
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