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Nana (1934 film)

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'Nana' is a 1934 American pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten. and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice.

This version of mile Zola's 1880 novel and heroine was to be the vehicle for Sten's triumph as Samuel Goldwyn's trained, groomed and heavily promoted answer to Greta Garbo. Despite a record-breaking opening week at Radio City Music Hall, Sten was beautiful but disappointing.

Goldwyn's tutoring of Sten is mentioned in Cole Porter's 1934 song "Anything Goes" from the musical of the same name: "If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct Anna Sten in diction / Then Anna shows / Anything goes."

Plot



A Parisian streetwalker is discovered by a theatrical impresario and becomes a stage success. At her height of popularity, she falls in love with a soldier, and draws both ire and fascination from his protective older brother.

Cast



* Anna Sten as Nana

* Lionel Atwill as Colonel Andr Muffat

* Richard Bennett as Gaston Greiner

* Mae Clarke as Satin

* Phillips Holmes as Lieutenant George Muffat

* Reginald Owen as Bordenave

* Helen Freeman as Sabine Muffat

* Lawrence Grant as Grand Duke Alexis

* Jessie Ralph as Zoe

* Ferdinand Gottschalk as Finot

* Paul Hurst as Employer (uncredited)

* Tom Ricketts as Party Guest (uncredited)

Reception



The film was a box office disappointment.Churchill, Douglas W. [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB071FFB3E59107A93C2AA1789D95F408385F9 The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era '(gate locked)']; 'New York Times' 30 December 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.

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