He is chiefly remembered today for his Lithuanian stories, for his autobiography, and for the 1927 silent films Sunrise, based on his short story Die Reise nach Tilsit (" Trip to Tilset "), from the Collection Litauische Geschichten ( Lithuanian Stories ), and Flesh and the Devil, starring Greta Garbo, based on his play The Undying Past.

Greta Garbo was remembered with a special section on her centennial birthday.

Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas and such as Love ( 1927 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory ( 1939 ) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge ( 1946 ) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.

Still, Garbo signed a contract in 1948 for $ 200, 000 with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced Queen Christina, to shoot a picture based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.

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.

Thalberg began the trend by studios of having two major stars in the same picture, such as Greta Garbo with John Gilbert, and Clark Gable costarring with Jean Harlow, among others.

In 1931, that book would be made into an MGM motion picture of the same name and starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable.

In the 1970s, Brown became a much-sought guest lecturer on the film-festival circuit, thanks in part to his connection with Garbo.

Biopic Queen Christina in 1933, starring Greta Garbo, veiled most of the speculation about Christina of Sweden's affairs with women.

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.

All of these were box-office hits, placing Shearer in competition with Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo as MGM's top actress through the remainder of the decade.

The Soviet Union then sends Nina Ivanovna " Ninotchka " Yakushova ( Greta Garbo ), a special envoy whose goal is to go through with the jewelry sale and bring back the three men.

Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling.

MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase " Garbo talks!

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 ).

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 in Flesh and the Devil ( 1926 ) with John Gilbert ( actor ) | John Gilbert

Even though it became one of the top-grossing films of the 1926 – 27 season, with nearly in receipts, it was, because of its cost, the only Garbo film of the period to lose money.

Garbo in Grand Hotel ( film ) | Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with John Barrymore

Publicized with the slogan " Garbo talks!

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.

The film was marketed with the tagline " Garbo laughs!

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.

Throughout her life, Garbo was known for taking long, daily walks with companions or by herself.

Legend has it that when a double marriage was arranged in 1926 ( with Eleanor Boardman and King Vidor ), Garbo failed to appear at the ceremony.

In his diary, Erich Maria Remarque discusses a liaison with Garbo in 1941 and in his memoir, Cecil Beaton described an affair with her in 1947 and 1948.

Ivens ' politics also put the kibosh on his first feature film project which was to have starred Greta Garbo.

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.

" Figuratively a ladykiller, Addams squired celebrities such as Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine and Jacqueline Kennedy on social occasions.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Garbo went on to make eight more silent films.

Greta Garbo died on 15 April 1990, aged 84, in New York Hospital as a result of pneumonia and renal failure.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Garbo appears on a number of postage stamps, and in September 2005, the United States Postal Service and Swedish Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her image.

Garbo also commissioned a death mask of Murnau, which she kept on her desk during her years in Hollywood.

Garbo and Lubitsch were friendly and had hoped to work together on a movie for years, but this would be their only project.

In 1999 film historian Leonard Maltin said, " You think of Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, all these great names, great actresses, Clara Bow was more popular in terms of box-office dollars, in terms of consistently bringing audiences into the theaters, she was right on top.

Others on the list were Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Dolores del Río, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, and James Cagney.

" She was a very valuable asset for MGM, because the studio had so many femmes fatales – Garbo, Crawford, Shearer, and Harlow – that we were always on the lookout for ' shady lady ' stories.

It was parody on the name of Greta Garbo.

However, Allason found him in Venezuela, and they collaborated on the book Operation Garbo, published in 1985.

Others on the list included Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Dolores del Río, and others.

The Spaniard Juan Pujol Garcia, better known as Codename Garbo, passed on misinformation to the Germans, hoping it would hasten the end of the Franco regime-he was recruited by Britain as a double agent while in Lisbon.

The Green Hat was turned into a play, produced on Broadway, successfully, in 1925 starring Katherine Cornell and almost simultaneously but less successfully in London's West End starring Tallulah Bankhead, and a Hollywood movie ( silent ) in 1928, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

Because of her striking looks, her glamorous appearance at receptions ( she always took a dress with her on her record-breaking flights ), and her later reclusive ways, Batten became known as the " Greta Garbo of the skies ".

Among Gargallo's works are three pieces based on Greta Garbo: " Masque de Greta Garbo à la mèche ," " Tête de Greta Garbo avec chapeau ," and " Masque de Greta Garbo aux cils.