Inspiration is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic melodrama film adapted by Gene Markey from the Alphonse Daudet novel Sappho (1884).

The film stars Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone and Marjorie Rambeau.

The cinematography was performed by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and the costume design by Adrian.

She falls in love with a young student of foreign diplomacy, André Montell.

The film earned approximately $1,127,000 in its worldwide distribution, resulting in a $286,000 profit for MGM.