The Garden of Eden is a lively, though outdated, romantic drama from the silent era. It’s directed with efficiency and wit by Lewis Milestone, whose range of films stretch from the 1930 anti-war classic “All Quiet on the Western Front” to the 1960 film about the “ratpack” “Ocean’s 11.” It’s adapted to the screen by Avery Hopwood and Hans Kraly from the play by Rudolph Bernauer & Rudolf Österreicher. It features marvelous art-direction courtesy of William Cameron Menzies, who later became a director of films such as the 1953 “Invader from Mars.” It stars Charles Ray as the sophisticate who falls in love with a lady he thinks has a title. Ray’s specialty was playing country bumpkins, and this Cinderella tale offered him a chance to go against type and perhaps revive his sagging career. Corinne Griffith, known in the silent era as “the world’s most beautiful woman,” played the beautiful innocent, who is still remembered today for her provocative autobiography “Papa’a Delicate Condition”–made in 1963 into a film starring Jackie Gleason. She’s also remembered by some for appearing in court when in her 60s to deny she was Corinne Griffith, insisting instead she was her younger sister. Corinne had a thing about aging and was in serious denial, but lived to the ripe old age of 84 (dying in 1979). She was never charged with perjury, but the court settled matters by accepting her friends’ testimonies that she was really Corinne.