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Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 American historical-drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Houghton was a dancer during his early career and taught actress Greta Garbo how to waltz for a role in Conquest (1937). [2] In 1939, Houghton appeared in two movie classics, first as Ozmite and a Winkie Guard in the Wizard of Oz and as a Southern dandy in Gone with the Wind. He played many recurring roles, beginning with The Jack Benny Program ...
Conquest (1937) A Royal Divorce (1938) The Blue Bird (1940) Swiss Family Robinson (1940) The Rothschilds (1940), German film about the rise of the Rothschild family; That Hamilton Woman (1941), a biopic of Admiral Horatio Nelson; The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), a biopic about William Pitt the Younger; Kolberg (1945), German film about the siege of ...
Garbo's follow-up project was Clarence Brown's lavish production of Conquest (1937), opposite Charles Boyer. The plot was the dramatized romance between Napoleon and Marie Walewska . It was MGM's biggest and most-publicized movie of its year, but upon its release, it became one of the studio's biggest failures of the decade at the box office ...
This list of American films of 1937 compiles American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1937. The 10th Academy Awards , hosted by Bob Burns , were presented on March 10, 1938 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel .
A Doctor's Diary (1937) as Billy (uncredited) Slave Ship (1937) as Boy (uncredited) It Happened in Hollywood (1937) as Boy (uncredited) Life Begins with Love (1937) as Young Boy; Conquest (1937) as Alexandre Walewska (uncredited) Wells Fargo (1937) as Young Nick Pryor (uncredited) The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) as Sammy Grant (uncredited)
Among Erickson's more notable roles were as Deborah Kerr's macho husband in the stage and film versions of Tea and Sympathy and as Greta Garbo's brother in Conquest (1937). He also played the role of Pete, the vindictive boat engineer, in the 1951 remake of the famed musical Show Boat.
That studio liked him and gave him a good part in Night Must Fall (1937). Marshal was used by MGM for key roles in prestige pictures: Parnell (1937), playing William O'Shea who was cuckolded by Clark Gable and Myrna Loy; and Conquest (1937) with Greta Garbo and Boyer, playing Philippe Antoine d'Ornano. [9]