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Garbo and called
After the disappointing Conquest ( 1937 ), Garbo was one of several major stars — including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn — called " box office poison " in an open letter published by the National Theater Distributors of America.
The animated series Partridge Family 2200 A. D., which debuted in 1974, features Keith and Laurie Partridge going to a futuristic space high school called " Galaxy High ," and Laurie's friend Marion Moonglow ( a Martian ) bears a striking resemblance to the Wendy Garbo character from this series.
Director Wim Wenders called her work " at least 15 years ahead of its time ", while the The Guardian termed Ann " a Garbo for our times ".
Garbo and Brown
In the 1970s, Brown became a much-sought guest lecturer on the film-festival circuit, thanks in part to his connection with Garbo.
Another adaptation by Frances Marion was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion and Marie Dressler.
After working at the Pasadena Playhouse, she came to the attention of the director Clarence Brown when he was looking for an actress to stand-in for Greta Garbo in screen tests.
It stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the play The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann.
Garbo and her
* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.
He also directed another of his favorite actresses, Greta Garbo, in Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ), her last film before she retired from the screen.
Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.
The 1933 film Queen Christina includes light-hearted and comedic moments between Garbo and her co-star John Gilbert, although the movie is generally regarded as a historical drama.
Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her " luminous and unforgettable screen performances ".
Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling.
After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka ( 1939 ), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ).
In 1922, Garbo caught the attention of director Erik Arthur Petschler who gave her a part in his short comedy, Peter the Tramp.
Garbo in her first leading role in the Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling | The Saga of Gösta Berling ( 1924 ) with Lars Hanson
Garbo remembered it as a picture associated with doom: on the fourth day of production, she received a telegram from Stockholm informing her of the death of her sister Alva at the age of twenty-three.
During this period, Garbo began to require unusual conditions during the shooting of her scenes.
Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.
Garbo in her first talkie, Anna Christie ( 1930 film ) | Anna Christie ( 1930 )
Following a contract dispute with MGM, Garbo signed a new contract with the studio in 1932 which gave her more control over her films and co-stars.
In 1935, David O. Selznick wanted to cast her as the dying heiress in Dark Victory, but Garbo chose Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ( 1935 ) in which she played another of her renowned roles.
From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided the social functions in Hollywood, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends.
As she had been during her Hollywood years, Garbo, with her innate need for solitude, was often reclusive.
Garbo signing her US citizenship papers, in 1950
Garbo and director
Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.
In late 1920, a director of film commercials for the store began casting Garbo in roles advertising women's clothing.
In 1969, Italian motion picture director Luchino Visconti allegedly attempted to bring Garbo back to the screen with a small part, Maria Sophia, Queen of Naples, in his adaptation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
It was said that at the apparent double wedding of Garbo and Gilbert and director King Vidor and actress Eleanor Boardman, Mayer made a crude remark about Garbo to the distraught Gilbert, causing him to physically attack the mogul.
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" It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, you can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you can hear in in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see it in the eyes of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling.
At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
However, he did win Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.
The top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic film stars, such as Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, and the greatest box office draw of the 1930s, child performer Shirley Temple.
Ivens ' politics also put the kibosh on his first feature film project which was to have starred Greta Garbo.
Biopic Queen Christina in 1933, starring Greta Garbo, veiled most of the speculation about Christina of Sweden's affairs with women.
Other sketches included " Superthunderstingcar ", a parody of the Gerry Anderson marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on Greta Garbo.
Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo were guests there, and Kaiser Wilhelm II himself held regular " gentlemens ' evenings " and other functions there in a room that came to be named after him-the Kaisersaal.
Gordon was signed to an MGM film contract for a brief period in the early 1930s but did not make a movie for the company until she acted opposite Greta Garbo in Two-Faced Woman in 1941.
* 1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress ( d. 1990 )
This agent, Garbo, created an entire network of phantom sub-agents and finally succeeded in convincing the British authorities that he could be useful.
But after he passed an MI5 security check conducted by two MI5 officers ( Cyril Mills and Tomás Harris ) and an MI6 officer ( Desmond Bristow ), Mills ( who Pujol only ever knew as Mr Grey ) suggested that his code name be changed to, after Greta Garbo.
* The Painted Veil ( 1934 ) featuring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall.
Laurents was soon hired to write the screenplay for a remake of the 1934 Greta Garbo film The Painted Veil for Ava Gardner.
She had also been linked to art dealer and Greta Garbo confidante Sam Green, who is mentioned in Lennon's will.
* Mata Hari ( 1932 ), Greta Garbo plays the real-life WWI spy.
The only major M-G-M stars missing from the revue are Greta Garbo, Ramón Novarro, and Lon Chaney, Sr., although Chaney is referred to by name in one of the songs performed.
Gilbert, a popular silent film actor best known for his work opposite Garbo, possessed a pleasant tenor speaking voice which didn't always match his heroic, dashing screen image.
In short order, he met Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, and Cole Porter, and Burton met up again with Humphrey Bogart.
In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo.
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