"Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life. Leo Tolstoy's novel receives sumptuous treatment in David O. Selznick's production. The cast - including Fredric March (as Vronsky), Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan and Freddie Bartholomew - is stellar under the direction of ..."
"This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a sweeping soap opera about the guests at the Grand Hotel. Several plots intertwine, but mostly it's about Stars! Stars! Stars! Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and both Barrymore brothers head up the cast. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the neurotic and famous-but-slipping dancer and, yes, she "vonts to be alone." John Barrymore is a cat burglar with blue blood and a heart of g ..."
"Ah, those fun-loving Communists! In Ninotchka three Soviets make their way to Paris to sell off imperial jewels to raise money to buy tractors for the USSR. When Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), former owner of the jewels, discovers what's happening, she deploys her lover Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to recover her gems. He starts a court proceeding while seducing the three bumbling Soviets with the luxuries of capitalistic life. The delay of ..."
"Ah, those fun-loving Communists! In Ninotchka three Soviets make their way to Paris to sell off imperial jewels to raise money to buy tractors for the USSR. When Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), former owner of the jewels, discovers what's happening, she deploys her lover Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to recover her gems. He starts a court proceeding while seducing the three bumbling Soviets with the luxuries of capitalistic life. The delay of ..."
Walking with Garbo(Reprint) Conversations and Recollections. Edited and Annotated by Vance Muse by Raymond W. Daum, GretaGarbo, Vance Muse Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1993 by Harpercollins Publishers, Us ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092355-6, ISBN: 0-06-092355-5
"... and Sciences' Stacey Endres, Ernest Lehman, Bayard Bastedo, Howard
Woolmer, and Robert Foshko. Gwynedd Cannan, the excellent cataloguer of the
David O. Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin, never failed to make that facility's archive treasures
available. In addition, thanks is given to L. Jeffrey Selznick and Selznick
biographer David Thomson for their cooperation an ..."
"Ninotchka (DVD)Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed s ..."
"Grand Hotel (DVD)Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and WallaceBeery star in this winner of an Oscar for Best Picture--Grand Hotel.In asingle day in Berlin's Grand Hotel, jewel thief Baron Felix von Geigern(John Barrymore--Dinner at Eight) covets both prima ballerinaGrusinskaya's (Garbo--Anna Christie) jewels and the beautiful Flaemmchen(Academy Award winner Crawford--Mildred Pierce), who is the mistress ofthe ..."
"To escape the burdens of rule, Sweden's Queen Christina rides into the countryside disguised as a boy. There she meets and secretly falls for a dashing Spanish envoy on his way to the royal court. Imagine the envoy's delighted surprise when he and the young "nobleman" must share a bed at an overcrowded inn. Greta Garbo gives a luminous performance in this lavish costume drama, starring with her one-time off-screen fiance John Gilbert an ..."
" It's one of the most highly anticipated entrances in movie history: Greta Garbo slinking into a sleazy waterfront bar and ordering whiskey. Well, "visky." A huge silent star, Garbo was speaking her first lines in her first talking picture, Anna Christie, and audiences were breathless with anticipation. As The New York Times put it, "The low enunciation of her initial lines, with a packed theater waiting expectantly to hear her first u ..."
"Paris, 1847: Das Leben ist so prickelnd wie Champagner und so gnadenlos wie der graue Morgen danach. In Spielsalons und auf verschwenderischen Soirées geben wohlhabende Männer den Ton an - und die als Kurtisanen abgestempelten Frauen genießen das Leben in vollen Zügen. Zu ihnen gehört auch Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), die Kameliendame in dieser opulenten Romanze nach der unsterblichen Geschichte von Alexandre Dumas. Garbos mystisch ..."
"She's a household name that conjures up international intrigue and wartime espionage, predatory sexuality and fatal passion. So how is it that none of the several movies titled Mata Hari is very satisfying? This Greta Garbo vehicle is much less interesting than the 1931 Sternberg-Dietrich film Dishonored (whose doomed spy lady went by the name X-27). The divine Swede plays the Javanese-Dutch exotic dancer who romances a Russian aviator ..."
"The story of the tempestuous romance between screen goddess Greta Garbo and society photographer Cecil Beaton--two enigmatic and iconic legends of the 30s. Best-selling author Souhami has drawn on diaries, letters, photographs, and films to show they both infused their work with the allure of androgyny--while concealing it in their private lives. A beautiful picture of two remarkable individuals and their era. "Compelling reading."--Lit ..."
"Rare early photographs of Garbo and never-before-published pictures from the forties illustrate this portrait of Garbo from her childhood in Sweden and her beginnings as an actress to her Hollywood years, romances, premature retirement, and life today"
"Luminous portraits by such masters of photography as Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Arnold Genthe, and others capture the enigmatic beauty and compelling mystery of reclusive actress Greta Garbo"
GretaGarbo Portraits 1920-1951 by GretaGarbo, Klaus-Jurgen Sembach Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1985 by Schirmer Books, Mosel, Munich, Germany ISBN-13: 978-0-85965-998-7, ISBN: 0-85965-998-4
"In an extended interview--complemented by stunning black-and-white photographs--the legendary actress speaks candidly about her childhood in Sweden, her first roles, her rise in Hollywood, and the reason for her retreat from the screen. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo."
"Very good cloth copy in a like dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 256 pages; Edited by Richard J. Anobile. A volume from The Film Classics Library. Presents the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book form."