People love a good mystery and none were more puzzling than Greta Garbo. Hollywood Remembers: The Divine Garbo recalls the...
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1990
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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Karin Borg Blake/Katherine Borg
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1941
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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Ninotchka
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1939
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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Marie Walewska
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1937
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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Marguerite Gauthier/Camille
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1936
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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Anna Karenina
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1935
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Katherine Koerber Fane
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1934
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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Queen Christina
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1933
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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Mata Hari
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1932
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Grusinskaya
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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Zara
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1932
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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Yvonne
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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Susan Lenox
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1931
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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Anna Christie
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1930
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Filmed simultaneously with the English version, this German-language film is considered by many to be technically superior....
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Anna Christie
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1930
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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Rita Cavallini
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1930
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In this silent film, the beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther)...
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Lili Sterling
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1929
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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Arden Stuart
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1929
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Adapted from a 1925 play by Patrick Kearney, A Man's Man was popular MGM leading man William Haines' final silent film...
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1929
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MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding...
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Irene
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1929
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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Diana Merrick
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1928
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Marianne
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1928
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Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of...
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Tania
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1928
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Anna Karenina
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1927
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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Felicitas von Kletzingk
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1926
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The Temptress was Greta Garbo's second American film, and while it may strike modern viewers as excessively melodramatic,...
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Elena
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1926
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The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo's first American film, The Torrent....
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Leonora
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1926
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G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse) is an unvarnished study of post-World War I Vienna. Plagued with...
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Greta Rumfort
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1925
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Known under a variety of titles, The Atonement of Gosta Berling is an excellent representation of the Swedish silent cinema....
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Countess Elizabeth Dohna
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1924
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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1921
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