MGM used the film to promote a new image of Garbo as modern and glamorous, hoping to increase her appeal to filmgoers in the United States. Much of the income from Garbo's earlier pictures had come from their popularity in the European market, which was now unavailable due to World War II. Garbo hated the script for Two-Faced Woman and did not want to make the film; she was disappointed that Madame Curie had been shelved (MGM made the film with Greer Garson