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"[Garbo] never gives a bad performance. There are one or two disappointing films,
like 'Mata Hari', but it's still full of fabulous imagery."
— cinema historian Kevin Brownlow

Greta Garbo entry at Wikipedia
Greta Garbo credits [1920-41] at Internet Movie Database

Greta Garbo received an Honorary Oscar® in 1955 and was nominated 4 times (1930-1940)

She also received
a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Links

Greta Garbo entry at Wikipedia
browse Greta Garbo on DVD at Amazon
Greta Garbo credits [1920-41] at Internet Movie Database
Greta Garbo photo posters at AllPosters.com

Vox Populi's Greta Garbo fansite
German-language Greta Garbo fansite
'Garbo Forever' fansite
Garbo's Restaurant at RainbowVision in Santa Fe, NM

Movies of Greta Garbo

browse Greta Garbo on DVD at Amazon
Greta Garbo credits [1920-41] at Internet Movie Database

	"30 Years of Fun" [Fox Feb 1963] 85-minute docufilm produced, written & directed by Robert Youngson; features silent-era actors & filmmakers Billy Bevan, Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Douglas Fairbanks, Greta Garbo, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Tom Mix, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, 'Snub' Pollard, Edna Purviance, and King Vidor Televista b&w DVD [10/2007] for $24.95 full credits at IMDb
	"The Garbo Silents Collection" [2005] includes "Flesh and The Devil" [1926] co-starring John Gilbert & Lars Hanson; "The Temptress" [1926] co-starring Lionel Barrymore, Antonio Moreno, Roy D'Arcy & Armand Kaliz; and "The Mysterious Lady" [1928] co-starring Conrad Nagel Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] 2 disks for $35.99
	"Garbo: The Signature Collection" [2005] Warner Home Video DVD set [9/2005] 10 disks for $77.99 includes "Anna Christie" [English 1930] with Charles Bickford; "Anna Christie" [German 1931]; "Mata Hari" [1931] with Ramon Novarro & Lionel Barrymore; "Grand Hotel" [1932] with John Barrymore, Wallace Beery & Lionel Barrymore; "Queen Christina" [1933] directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with John Gilbert; "Anna Karenina" [1935] with Fredric March; "Camille" [1936] directed by George Cukor, with Robert Taylor & Lionel Barrymore; and "Ninotchka" [1939] directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Melvyn Douglas; three Garbo silent features {as above}: "The Temptress" [1926]; "Flesh and The Devil" [1926]; and "The Mysterious Lady" [1928]; PLUS the T.C.M. original documentary "Garbo" [2005] and other extras

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"The Joyless Street" [Germany May 1925, USA July 1927]
starring Greta Garbo & Antonio Moreno; full credits at IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/The-Joyless-Street/dp/B000W9TTSS/ = truncated 60 min version

"The Temptress" [M.G.M. Oct 1926 silent] /B002EAYEE2/
starring Greta Garbo & Antonio Moreno; full credits at IMDb

"Flesh  and  The  Devil"  [M.G.M. Dec 1926 silent]
Directed by Clarence Brown; starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo & Lars Hanson
full credits from IMDb; listed on National Film Registry (2006)

"Love" [1927 silent] /B002EAYE4M/
Two endings were filmed, one happy and one sad; based on Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina";
continuity by Frances Marion; starring Greta Garbo & John Gilbert; full credits from IMDb

"The Mysterious Lady" [M.G.M. Aug 1928 silent]
starring Greta Garbo & Conrad Nagel; full credits at IMDb

"Wild Orchids" [M.G.M. Feb 1929] /B002EAYEGK/
Directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Greta Garbo & Nils Asther; full credits at IMDb

"The Single Standard" [M.G.M. July 1929] /B0026R5708/
starring Greta Garbo & Nils Asther; full credits at IMDb

"The Kiss" [M.G.M. Nov 1929] /B002EAYE38/
Directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo & Nils Asther; full credits at IMDb

"Romance" [1930]

"Anna  Christie" [M.G.M. Feb 1930]

"Garbo talks!" The title character, raised in far Minnesota, returns to live with her fisherman father. A shipwrecked Scottish seaman falls in love with her, but she resists her attraction to him. The father tries to stop the romance, and the girl resents the men's assumed control over her life. She reveals the tragic events of the past 15 years; the men react, followed by a kind of forgive- ness. Co-produced & directed by Clarence Brown; script by Frances Marion [1886-1973], based on the 1921 play by Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]; starring Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack & Lee Phelps; Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Actress & Best Cinematography The DVD includes both the English- & German-language versions Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] for $17.99 M.G.M. b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb • 1930 movie entry at Wikipedia blue 27"x40" poster (top) from Amazon for $19.99 blue 11"x17" poster (top) from Amazon for $14.99

"Anna  Christie" [M.G.M. Jan 1931] "Garbo talks!" in German! An example of Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production during the early talkies. This German-language version was made on the same sets after the 1930 version was completed, the only duplicate cast member was Garbo. (She considered this to be the better version.)Directed by Jacques Feyder; German script & dialogue by Walter Hasenclever & Frank Reicher; starring Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel & Herman Bing The DVD includes both the English- & German-language versions Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • 1931 movie entry at Wikipedia

"Susan Lenox: Her Fall & Rise" [1931]

"Mata Hari" [1931]
with Ramon Novarro & Lionel Barrymore; full credits at IMDb

"Grand Hotel" [1932]
with John Barrymore, Wallace Beery & Lionel Barrymore; full credits at IMDb

"As You Desire Me" [studio mo 1932]

"Queen Christina" [1933]
directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with John Gilbert; full credits at IMDb

"The Painted Veil" [studio mo 1934]

"Anna Karenina" [1935]
with Fredric March; full credits at IMDb

"Conquest" [1937]

"Camille" [studio mo 1937]
Directed by George Cukor; co-written by Frances Marion; starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor & Lionel Barrymore;
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005); VHS available • full credits from IMDb

"Ninotchka" [M.G.M. Oct 1939]

Three Russian agents are sent to Paris to sell jewelry confiscated during the Revolution; a former Russian noblewoman enlists a British count to retreive her family's jewelry, the three agents are seduced by Western decadence, and stiff agent Ninotchka Ivanoff is sent to bring the jewels and agents back. Co-produced & directed by Ernst Lubitsch; written by Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & Walter Reisch; starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman & Felix Bressart; Oscar nomi- nations for Best Picture, Best Original Story, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Garbo); listed on National Film Registry (1990); listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005) Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2005] for $5.79 M.G.M. Video b&w VHS [1/99] out of prodn/many used 11"x17" square 'Garbo laughs!' poster from Amazon for $14.99 12"x9" orange/wide giclee print available for $34.99 at AllPosters.com full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka Starring Greta Garbo" script & critical text [1975] Edited by Richard J. Anobile Flare/Avon pb [4/75] out of print/used Universe/Darien House 11x8¾ hardcover [4/75] out of print/many used

"Two-Faced Woman" [studio mo 1941]

Works By Greta Garbo

"Conversations With Greta Garbo" by Sven Broman and Greta Garbo (Paperback - Nov 1992) - Large Print

Works About Greta Garbo
browse books about Greta Garbo

"The Private Life of Greta Garbo" [Doubleday, Doran 1931] by Rilla Page Palmborg
"The Only True Story of Greta Garbo’s Private Life" [Amalgamated Press, London 1933] by Sven-Hugo Borg
"The Love Goddesses" video [1965] with Marlene Dietrich
"Garbo" [Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1971] by John Bainbridge
"Garbo: Portraits from Her Private Collection" [] by Scott Reisfield /0847827240/

"The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull" [1989] by Terence Pepper & John Kobal Nearly 200 portraits of filmstars such as Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Vivian Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor & Spencer Tracy, and 20 years (1921-41) of exclusive studio portraits of Greta Garbo Schirmer/Mosel Verlag pb [4/96] out of print/used S&S hardcover [11/89] out of print/many used

"Garbo" [Knopf 1995] by Barry Paris /081664182X/

"Greta Garbo: The Mysterious Lady" [A&E Biography April 1998]
Produced, written & directed by John Griffin; full credits at IMDb

{maybe} "The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood" [St. Martin's Press 2000] by Diana McLellan

"Greta and Cecil" [Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000] by Diana Souhami

"Garbo" documentary [T.C.M. 2005]
full credits at IMDb

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