***SPOILERS*** Despite its somewhat lackluster reviews from the critics "Two Faced Woman" comes across as one of the best screwball comedies to come out of Hollywood in the 1930's and 1940's.
Greta Garbo in a duel role as both Karin & Kathreen Borg is a ski instructor at the "Snow Lodge" in Idaho who meets and falls in love, after he fell and almost broke his head, with New York magazine editor of "Tides & Currents" Larry Blake, Melvyn Douglas. Larry sick and tired of the dog eat dog existence as a magazine editor back in New York whats to turn over a new leaf in not only marrying the outdoors type Karin but leave the publishing and magazine business altogether and live in the great outdoors of far away Idaho; Where the air is fresh and clean and the potatoes, when baked, tastes delicious.
It's when Larry travels back to New York to clear up some very pressing business matters before he calls it quits that Karin, back in Idaho, decides to check up on her husband by secretly traveling to the "Big Apple" herself. The trip almost turns into a disaster when Karin is spotted by Larry's partner and friend in the publishing business Oscar O.O. Miller, Roland Young, but with the help of his secretary Ruth Ellis, Ruth Gordon, gets herself a complete makeover and is transformed into Kathleen Borg! Karin's partying smoking drinking and dancing, the total opposite of Karin, twin sister!
Greta Garbo really lets her hair down in this movie as both Karin & Kathleen Borg driving her confused husband Larry bananas in him not quite being able to make out if Kathleen is really his wife Karin or or twin sister. It's later in the film that Larry gets the news,by phone, back in Idaho that Karin had left for New York that he manages to put two and two together and realizes that his wife is playing a dirty trick on him and decides to double-cross her in return! By having a hot and heavy affair with Karin's "twin sister" Kathleen behind her back!
The film "Two Face Woman" had trouble at first being released due to pressure by the "Catholic League of Decency" in the fact that Larry while married to Karin was romantically involved with another woman Kathleen even though he didn't know that the two were one and the same person! This all was corrected by inserting into the movie a scene,the phone call to Idaho, where Larry did in fact find out about Karin's masquerade before he started to make his move, by getting her in the shack with him, on her! With WWII in full swing when the film was made Greta Garbo decided to wait until the the hostilities were over to continue her film career. As things turned out Garbo found that the peace and quite life as a private citizen, with millions in the bank, was far better then the pressures of being a top Hollywood star in Tinseltown and retired from acting for good.
Greta Garbo in a duel role as both Karin & Kathreen Borg is a ski instructor at the "Snow Lodge" in Idaho who meets and falls in love, after he fell and almost broke his head, with New York magazine editor of "Tides & Currents" Larry Blake, Melvyn Douglas. Larry sick and tired of the dog eat dog existence as a magazine editor back in New York whats to turn over a new leaf in not only marrying the outdoors type Karin but leave the publishing and magazine business altogether and live in the great outdoors of far away Idaho; Where the air is fresh and clean and the potatoes, when baked, tastes delicious.
It's when Larry travels back to New York to clear up some very pressing business matters before he calls it quits that Karin, back in Idaho, decides to check up on her husband by secretly traveling to the "Big Apple" herself. The trip almost turns into a disaster when Karin is spotted by Larry's partner and friend in the publishing business Oscar O.O. Miller, Roland Young, but with the help of his secretary Ruth Ellis, Ruth Gordon, gets herself a complete makeover and is transformed into Kathleen Borg! Karin's partying smoking drinking and dancing, the total opposite of Karin, twin sister!
Greta Garbo really lets her hair down in this movie as both Karin & Kathleen Borg driving her confused husband Larry bananas in him not quite being able to make out if Kathleen is really his wife Karin or or twin sister. It's later in the film that Larry gets the news,by phone, back in Idaho that Karin had left for New York that he manages to put two and two together and realizes that his wife is playing a dirty trick on him and decides to double-cross her in return! By having a hot and heavy affair with Karin's "twin sister" Kathleen behind her back!
The film "Two Face Woman" had trouble at first being released due to pressure by the "Catholic League of Decency" in the fact that Larry while married to Karin was romantically involved with another woman Kathleen even though he didn't know that the two were one and the same person! This all was corrected by inserting into the movie a scene,the phone call to Idaho, where Larry did in fact find out about Karin's masquerade before he started to make his move, by getting her in the shack with him, on her! With WWII in full swing when the film was made Greta Garbo decided to wait until the the hostilities were over to continue her film career. As things turned out Garbo found that the peace and quite life as a private citizen, with millions in the bank, was far better then the pressures of being a top Hollywood star in Tinseltown and retired from acting for good.