The Divine Woman

{{short description|1928 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Divine Woman

| image = The Divine Woman.jpg

| caption =

| director = Victor Sjöström

| producer = Richard A. Rowland

| writer = John Colton (titles)
Dorothy Farnum (writer)

| based_on = {{based on|Starlight|Gladys Unger}}

| narrator =

| starring = Greta Garbo
Lars Hanson

| music =

| cinematography = Oliver T. Marsh

| editing = Conrad A. Nervig

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{film date|1928|1|14}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent film
English intertitles

| budget = $266,817.14

{{cite book

| author1 = Alexander Walker

| author2 = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| title = Garbo: a portrait

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nmZZAAAAMAAJ

| accessdate = July 27, 2010

| date = October 1980

| publisher = Macmillan

| isbn = 978-0-02-622950-0

| page = 184

}}

| gross = $931,000 (worldwide rental){{Citation|title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger|publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study|place=Los Angeles, California}}.

}}

File:Divine Woman lantern slide 1928.jpg

The Divine Woman (1928) is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Only a single nine-minute reel[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DivineWoman1928.html The Divine Woman at silentera.com] and an additional 45-second excerpt[http://mikaelasfilmblogg.blogspot.se/2011/10/gretas-lost-and-found.html Greta's Lost and Found at Mikaelas filmblogg][http://www.sfi.se/Documents/Verksamhetsber%C3%A4ttelser/Resultatredovisningar/Resultatredovisning%202011.pdf Svenska Filminstitutet - Resultatredovisning 2011] Pg. 17 (Swedish) are currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film, the only known complete copy of which was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003106/http://www.thegreatstars.com/lost_film_wanted.htm The Divine Woman at The GreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted]}}(Wayback Machine)[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnemetromgm.html The Divine Woman at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost MGM films - 1928][http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1567/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Divine Woman]

The film grossed $541,000 in the USA and $390,000 internationally; its worldwide gross was $931,000 and generated MGM a profit of $354,000.{{Cite web|url=http://www.garboforever.com/Film-13.htm|title=The Divine Woman}}