A Woman of Affairs: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown. When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.
Barbara: … who is using them for evil. That’s correct. Because we have a responsibility as wives, and we talked about that earlier, too, to meet one another’s needs in marriage. Dennis: And, you know, that’s why Paul spoke very clearly that both the husband and the wife have ...
Sandra Gunning argues that “Dixon obviously intends Cleo [the mulatta temptress in the novel] to function as a retributive figure in the life of one white family, as a way of pointing to the need for complete racial separation.” She also points out that Cleo “embodies an incestuous racial...