A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.

Greta Garbo
as Leonora Moreno

Ricardo Cortez
as Don Rafael Brull

Gertrude Olmstead
as Remedios

Edward Conelly
as Pedro Moreno

Lucien Littlefield
as Cupido

Martha Mattox
as Doña Bernarda Brull

Lucy Beaumont
as Doña Pepa

Tully Marshall
as Don Andrés

Mack Swain
as Don Matías

Arthur Edmund Carewe
as Salvatti
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It is quite risky to make a silent film about an opera star - so much of the passion and power of the piece must surely come from the singing? Well Greta Garbo gives it a damn good try here - and pretty much pulls it off as "Leonora", the young girl in love with the son of the local landed gentry "D...