A Woman of Affairs

Friday, May 15, 2026•6:30 PM

For a number of generations, men have done as they please – and women have done as men pleased. Not so for San Francisco socialite Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo). In this daring late silent, the divine Garbo is ideally cast playing a character in many ways like herself: unconventional, independent, desired.

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New Beverly Cinema

Before it became the repertory movie haven it is today, this historic building housed a vaudeville house, candy factory, and even a celebrity nightclub. In 1978, Sherman Torgan transformed a shuttered adult theater into the New Beverly Cinema.story

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7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

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+1 323-938-4038

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