"A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence."
Greta Garbo
as Countess Marie Walewska
Charles Boyer
as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Reginald Owen
as Tallyrand
Alan Marshal
as Capt. d'Ornano
Henry Stephenson
as Count Anastas Walewski
Leif Erickson
as Paul Lachinski
May Whitty
as Laetitia Bonaparte
Maria Ouspenskaya
as la Comtesse Pelagia Walewska
C. Henry Gordon
as le Prince Poniatowski
Claude Gillingwater
as Stephan
Vladimir Sokoloff
as Dying soldier
George Houston
as Grand Marshal George Duroc
George Davis
as Grenadier (uncredited)
Sue Moore
as Servant (uncredited)
Scotty Beckett
as Alexandre Walewska (uncredited)
Winifred Harris
as Countess Augustus Walewska
Clarence Brown
Director
S. N. Behrman
Writer
Waclaw Gasiorowski
Novel
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Salka Viertel
Bernard H. Hyman
Producer
Samuel Hoffenstein
William A. Horning
Tom Held
Editor
Adrian
Costume Design
Karl Freund
Director of Photography
Gustav Machatý
Co-Director
Leo Arnaud
Orchestrator
Leonid Raab
Jack Dawn
Makeup Artist
Zoe Akins
George Bassman
Talbot Jennings
Carey Wilson
Ken Terrell
Stunts
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
William Grimes
Still Photographer
Paul Marquardt
Helen Jerome
Herbert Stothart
Original Music Composer
Murray Cutter