 The movie, however, met with controversy upon its release; censors objected to the scenes in which Garbo disguised herself as a man and kissed a female co-star.Although her domestic popularity was undiminished in the early 1930s, high profits for Garbo's films after "Queen Christina" depended on the foreign market for their success.The type of historical and melodramatic films she began to make on the advice of Viertel were highly successful abroad, but considerably less so in the United States.