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DRAMATISING history can best be done by playing the pages of history itself. Great events and characters are so dramatic in themselves that, with a little guidance into modern dramatic form, no great licence needs be taken by the screen playwright in bringing them to the screen.
This was demonstrated in the filming of Marie Waleivska, with Garbo as the tragic Polish Countess who was the great love of Napoleon Bonaparte, the role played by Charles Boyer.
With only a few dramatic liberties taken, and after intensive research, the characters are recreated cinematically, to relive their ives of more than a century ago.
The story opens with the meeting, in 1806, of Napoleon and Marie Walewska, youthful wife of an octogenarian statesman, at the ball given by Prince Joseph Poniatowski in Warsaw to welcome the French Emperor, Poland's one hope of independence.
The ballroom was duplicated. Through make-up based on actual portraits, the faces of Napoleon, of Talleyrand, played by Reginald Owen, of Poniatowski, played by C. Henry Gordon, and the rest of the historical personages, were reproduced.
While research could not provide the exact words spoken at the ball, the sequence of events was known, which provided a basis for dialogue.
One dramatic liberty was taken at the opening of the picture, where Marie WalewsU.i. as played by Garbo, went to Bronie, a village near her ancestral castle of Walewice, to watch Napoleon pass on his way to Moscow, and when the screen playwright had them briefly meet.
History tells of the meeting at the ball anil Napoleon's infatuation ; how he laid siege to the