Nana (1934)
1h 30m
Running Time
February 1, 1934Release Date
Nana (1934)
1h 30m
Running Time
February 1, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.
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Cast & Crew.
Anna Sten
Nana
Phillips Holmes
Lieutenant George Muffat
Lionel Atwill
Colonel André Muffat
Mae Clarke
Satin
Richard Bennett
Gaston Greiner
Muriel Kirkland
Mimi
Dorothy Arzner
Director
Reginald Owen
Bordenave
George Fitzmaurice
Director
Helen Freeman
Sabine Muffat
Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Writer
Lawrence Grant
Grand Duke Alexis
Willard Mack
Writer
Jessie Ralph
Zoe
Émile Zola
Writer
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Finot
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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. Despite a record-breaking opening week at Radio City Music Hall, Sten was received as beautiful but disappointing.Goldwyn's tutoring of Sten is mentioned in Cole Porter's 1934 song "Anything Goes" from the musical of the same name: "If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct Anna Sten in diction / Then Anna shows / Anything goes."