Mata Hari is a 1931 American pre-Codedrama film directed by George Fitzmaurice loosely based on the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film stars Greta Garbo in the title role. It was Garbo's most commercially successful vehicle. Only a censored version of the film is currently available.

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Plot[edit]

In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I. Dubois, head of the French spy bureau, offers to spare the life of a captured agent (an uncredited Mischa Auer) if he will reveal who he is protecting. Dubois suspects it is Mata Hari, a celebrated exotic dancer, but the prisoner chooses execution by firing squad.

Lieutenant Alexis Rosanoff of the Imperial Russian Air Force lands in Paris after a dangerous flight over enemy territory, bringing important dispatches from Russia. He persuades his superior, General Serge Shubin, to take him to see Mata Hari perform that night. Rosanoff is instantly smitten by her (as are most of the men of Paris). By youthful exuberance and good looks, he persuades her to spend the night with him. However, the next morning, she makes it clear to him that it was a one-time dalliance.

Carlotta secretly instructs Mata Hari to report to Andriani, their spymaster. Andriani orders her to find out from General Shubin the contents of the dispatches Rosanoff brought.

Meanwhile, when Dubois discloses his suspicions about Mata Hari to Shubin, the general laughs them off as ridiculous. However, Shubin has himself passed secret information to his lover Mata Hari, whom he is expecting for a private dinner. Rosanoff arrives unexpectedly, in case Shubin has further instructions before the pilot returns to Russia with more important dispatches. Upon learning of Rosanoff's mission, Mata Hari arranges for a confederate to steal the dispatches, photograph them and then return them undetected, while she keeps a puzzled, but delighted Rosanoff occupied.

This is the opportunity for which Dubois has been waiting. He informs Shubin of Mata Hari's recent activities, inciting his jealousy. She comes to see the general, but is unable to persuade him she was only doing her job. In fact, she has fallen in love with the younger man. Furious, Shubin telephones Dubois and confirms that Mata Hari is a spy. She shoots him dead before he can carry through on his threat to implicate Rosanoff.

Mata Hari goes into hiding, but when Andriani informs her that Rosanoff crashed and was seriously injured on his way back to Russia, she defies him and resigns to go to her love. Rosanoff has been blinded, but may recover his sight. After a joyful reunion (in which she does not reveal her desperate predicament), she is arrested by Dubois.

At her trial, her lawyer, Major Caron, points out that Dubois' case is weak; all his testimony is second-hand. However, when Dubois threatens to have Rosanoff brought in to testify that he met her outside Shubin's office just after the murder, Mata Hari gives up. She is sentenced to death. She writes to Rosanoff, telling him that she cannot see him for a while, as she has to go to a sanatorium for her health.

Shortly before her execution, Rosanoff is brought to her. The jailor and the attending nuns all maintain the pretense that they are in a sanatorium. Rosanoff tells the prisoner that he will likely see again and he looks forward to their future life together once she has recovered her health. Finally, Mata Hari is taken away to face the firing squad, with Rosanoff under the impression that she is going into surgery for a routine operation.

Cast[edit]

• Greta Garbo as Mata Hari
• Ramon Novarro as Lieutenant Alexis Rosanoff
• Lionel Barrymore as General Serge Shubin
• Lewis Stone as Andriani
• C. Henry Gordon as Dubois
• Karen Morley as Carlotta
• Alec B. Francis as Major Caron
• Blanche Friderici as Sister Angelica (as Blanche Frederici)
• Edmund Breese as Warden
• Helen Jerome Eddy as Sister Genevieve
• Frank Reicher as The Cook-Spy, ordered by Andriani to commit suicide for his past failures

Reception[edit]

Commercially, Mata Hari was Garbo's most successful film and MGM's biggest hit of the year, netting a profit of $879,000.^[1][2] It was a sensation in the US, and overseas rentals, especially in Continental Europe, matched those in the US. These combined grosses amounted to $2,227,000 (or $40,474,668 in 2018 dollars^[3]).^[1]

Censorship upon reissue[edit]

As with many pre-Code Hollywood films, Mata Hari was censored upon its reissue after strict enforcement of the Hays Code began in mid-1934.

• Mata's erotic dance to the statue of Shiva was drastically shortened. At the end of what remains, a glimpse of Mata (played in long shots by a dance double) almost completely nude and slumped motionless at the feet of the statue was left in, evidence now of how much was cut out. A brief fragment of the deleted portion of her dance of the veils survives at the end of a pre-Code trailer.^[4]
• In Rosanoff's first visit to Mata's apartment, the fade-out that ends the scene was moved up, eliminating views of Mata after she changes into a see-through negligee, more love-making, and the clear implication of a consummation after the fade-out.
• In Mata's visit to Rosanoff's apartment, after he blows out the candle he was shown carrying Mata off to his bedroom. As part of the following sequence showing the removal, copying and return of the secret documents, there was a scene of the pair in bed, engaged in pillow talk, discreetly lit only by the glowing ends of their cigarettes — a once-famous scene the censors removed completely. One line of dialog from that now-missing minute, in which Rosanoff comments on Mata's 'ridiculously long' eyelashes, is referred to later in the film.^[5][6][7][8]

According to online reports, not officially confirmed but for more than ten years apparently never contradicted, a print of the original uncut version, subtitled in French and Dutch, survives at the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique in Brussels, where it was publicly shown in 2005.^[9][10] That institution's program guide for March 2009 documents a showing of Mata Hari with a stated running time of 92 minutes.^[11] The censored version released on DVD in 2005 has a running time of 89 minutes.

See also[edit]

• Mata Hari (1927)
• Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)
• Mata Hari (1985)

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
2. ^Vieira, Mark A. (1999). Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 52. ISBN0-8109-4475-8.
3. ^'US Inflation Calculator'. US Inflation Calculator. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
4. ^This trailer, which touts the film as 'unexpurgated', is included in the 2005 DVD release.
5. ^Vieira, Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, pp. 54, 59, 60, 224.
6. ^Swenson, Karen (1997). Greta Garbo: A life Apart. New York: Scribner. p. 261. ISBN978-0-684-80725-6.
7. ^Soares, André (2002). Beyond Paradise: the life of Ramon Novarro. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN0-312-28231-1.
8. ^Ellenberger, Ramon Novarro: A Biography of the Silent Film Idol, p. 113.
9. ^'The Films of Greta Garbo'. See December 14 and 15, 2010 postings by eyewitness 'yiannisfrance'. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
10. ^'Mata Hari uncensored'. In rough English on a German site. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
11. ^Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique program guide for March 2009. See p. 17. Retrieved 2017-01-26.

External links[edit]

• Mata Hari at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Mata Hari on IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Mata Hari at the TCM Movie Database

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Mouskouri became well-known throughout Europe for the song 'The White Rose of Athens', recorded first in German as 'Weiße Rosen aus Athen' as an adaptation of her Greek song 'Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές' (San sfyríxeis tris forés, 'When you whistle three times'). It became her first record to sell over one million copies.

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Later in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'À force de prier'. Her friendship with the composer Michel Legrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own TV show produced by BBC, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and distinctive image, owing to the then unusual signature black-rimmed glasses, turned Mouskouri into an international star.