"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Who was Greta Garbo? For a while the greatest of all movie stars, then a celebrated recluse, always "the mysterious lady," Garbo purred, "I want to be alone," and people took her at her word. Of course, the real Garbo is actually the "reel" Garbo, the silvery, suffering creature on the movie screen--the way the light caught her eyes, and the way she slithered around in silk. There are other Garbo films to be seen, but Garbo: The Signatu ..."
"This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie, True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish, to Love Me Tonight (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy ..."
" Technische Angaben: Bildformat: 1,33:1 (4:3)Sprache / Tonformate: Deutsch, Englisch (Dolby Digital 2.0)Untertitel: Deutsch, EnglischSchweden im 17.Jahrhundert. Königin Christine ist nicht bereit, wie ihre Vorgängerin, einer Vernunftheirat zuzustimmen. Sie will nur einen Mann heiraten, den sie auch liebt. Sie verkleidet sich als Mann und reist unerkannt durchs Land. In einer einsamen Herberge trifft sie den spanischen Botschafter Don ..."
"Mysterious Lady (Silent) (1928) / REGION FREE DVD / Subtitles: English, Spanish, Chinese / Actors: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Albert Pollet, Edward Connelly / Director: Fred Niblo"