Mata Hari is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice loosely based on the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film stars Greta Garbo in the title role. It was Garbo's most commercially successful vehicle. Only a censored version of the film is currently available.
Mata Hari (1931 film)
Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro
George Fitzmaurice was a French-born film director and producer.
George Fitzmaurice
Fitzmaurice (left) directs Elsie Ferguson, Warner Oland, Wyndham Standing in The Witness for the Defense (1919)
The Profiteers, 1919
The Emperor's Candesticks, 1937