Queen Christina: Angst on the Silver Throne
Greta Garbo. Photo: MGM In January 1934, Greta Garbo’s latest picture had not yet opened in her native country. Queen Christina depicted a Swedish 17th-century queen who abdicated the throne,…
Camille: An Unguarded Garbo
Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. Photo: MGM This adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas play and novel became one of Hollywood wunderkind Irving Thalberg’s last as producer. As in so…
Anna Karenina
In 1870s Russia, the wife (Greta Garbo) of a prominent statesman (Basil Rathbone) begins a love affair with a military officer (Fredric March). A romantic adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy…
Grand Hotel: Where Nothing Ever Happens
Greta Garbo and John Barrymore. Photo: MGM In the 1930s, the Nazis decided that the Austrian author Vicki Baum’s novels were amoral and had to be banned. By then, Baum…