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A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS
August 26, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
A brave component of today’s all-day, all-night Greta Garbo tribute on TCM is that the network has decided to schedule, in prime time, two of her silent movies. Both of them were made and released after the 1927 game-changing unveiling of The Jazz Singer, widely credited as the first full-length talking picture (even though many of its scenes were silent, with written screen cards for dialogue). At 9:45 p.m. ET, TCM shows the 1929 film Wild Orchids, in which Garbo plays a married woman drawn to another man. And before that, at 8 p.m. ET, the network presents 1928’s A Woman of Affairs (pictured), in which Garbo, opposite frequent screen co-star John Gilbert, suffers a series of troubled romances.
 
 
 
 
 
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