A Woman of Affairs

by Clarence Brown, Michael Arlen, Bess Meredyth, John Gilbert

$35 · Offered by Royal Books

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM , 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film, showing actress Dorothy Sebastian. Based on screenwriter Michael Arlen's 1924 novel The Green Hat, which he also adapted for theatre in 1925, about two childhood sweethearts who are banned from marriage due to class differences. Arlen's novel was considered so daring in the US that producers attempted to distance the film from the source text as much

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