I love classic films, but I've never really understood the fuss over Garbo. Perhaps knowledgable DLers can suggest one of her films for me to check out.
Which is Greta Garbo's best film?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 25, 2022 9:26 AM |
Garbo's acting doesn't translate easily to modern audiences. She's very remote, but some of her films are worth watching. Ninotchka is probably the most accessible. Camille features dreamy Robert Taylor and the divine Laura Hope Crews. Most critics think it's Garbo's best performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 25, 2021 3:04 AM |
Yes I would agree that Camille is her best performance but Queen Christina has classic sequences like the I'm memorising this room, and the famous last shot of her in closeup.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 25, 2021 3:15 AM |
Ninotchka holds up best
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 25, 2022 1:53 AM |
Mata Hari. But you can only see the uncensored superior version every 20 years or so at the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 25, 2022 2:03 AM |
What is different in the uncensored version, R4?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 25, 2022 2:06 AM |
Sexual situations
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 25, 2022 2:07 AM |
Talk about a face that the camera loved!!
Loved Dietrich as well. Shanghai Express....it took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 25, 2022 2:08 AM |
I find her to be a blank, unable to express emotion in a believable manner.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 25, 2022 2:24 AM |
Devil is a Woman is my favorite of the von Sternberg films with Dietrich. The visual excess often veers into abstraction.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 25, 2022 2:29 AM |
She sucked
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 25, 2022 2:31 AM |
Lesbian admirers (or admirers of lesbians) will be partial to Queen Christina and The Painted Veil.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 25, 2022 2:32 AM |
She was a lousy actress. Was mute most of his life
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 25, 2022 2:49 AM |
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| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 25, 2022 2:54 AM |
No love for "En lyckoriddare" (1921)?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 25, 2022 3:01 AM |
Garbo's style hasn't really aged well, but "Ninotchka" is a delight.
On the other hand her wooden performance almost sinks the otherwise entertaining "Grand Hotel".
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 25, 2022 3:31 AM |
Like the musical, r15, the two sympathetic characters walk away with the show. Joan is really luminous in the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 25, 2022 3:34 AM |
Joan is other worldly the way she is styled and photographed in Grand Hotel. In my opinion it is the first time she is really good onscreen, not that she wasn't watchable, but she was all over the place as an actress before this. In Grand Hotel she finally settled down and stopped doing so much.
Garbo is trapped in a silent film here for some reason. She also seems somewhat bored in her role.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 25, 2022 5:11 AM |
Ninotchka was wonderful, and she is really a good comic actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 25, 2022 5:13 AM |
And kudos to Melvyn Douglas. I was remembering him as a Barrymore but I was wrong!
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 25, 2022 5:15 AM |
R18 is deaf and dumb
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 25, 2022 9:26 AM |