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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 Émile 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.
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 Émile Zola's heroine was to be the vehicle for Sten's triumph as Samuel Goldwyn's trained, groomed and heavily promoted answer to Greta Garbo.
Synopsis. In 1868 Paris, Nana, a girl of the streets, buries her mother, vowing that she will never accept her mother's legacy of poverty and powerlessness. A year later, Nana is at a cafe with her friends, Mimi and Satin, when Lt. Gregory, a drunken soldier, accosts her.
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.
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men.
Young Parisian Nana (Anna Sten) wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner (Richard Bennett) is so impressed with her pluck that he decides...
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Sworn not to accept her late mother's fate of poverty and powerlessness, Nana, a woman of the streets, sees a rapid change in fortune when an impresario refashions her as a chanteuse, and she becomes the toast of Paris.
