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Greta Garbo is alluring as the Dutch-born German spy in her biggest hit film Mata Hari (1931). She says: ‘Women like me are trained to forget. We mustn’t admit a heart. I never look ahead. […]
Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]
Director George Cukor directs Greta Garbo in a bitter-sweet occasion – her final film in 1941 – in which she plays a double role as twin sisters. MGM is evidently trying to capitalise on Garbo’s […]
For producer-director Edmund Goulding’s 1927 MGM romantic drama silent movie, there could be only one actress to play Leo Tolstoy’s heroically suffering heroine Anna Karenina – Greta Garbo. MGM made the film to cash in […]
In 1930 a nervous MGM studio advertised their biggest star’s long-delayed début in the talkies rather sensibly with ‘Garbo talks!’ And so, after more than half an hour of screen time, she finally does: “Gif […]
Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]
Director George Cukor’s 1937 vintage tragic romance movie stars Greta Garbo, perfectly cast and at her most luminous finest. After two famous classic silent movie versions in 1921 and 1927, finally there is a talkie […]