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Camille (1937) [VHS]

Camille (1937) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Robert Taylor , Lionel Barrymore , Elizabeth Allan , Jessie Ralph
Director: George Cukor
One of Greta Garbo's touchstone films, this 1937 adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel finds the actress playing a dying courtesan who falls in love with a young nobleman (a slightly miscast Robert Taylor) and must sacrifice her happiness. Directed by George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), the supreme "women's director" in Hollywood at the time, the film could have existed just to give Garbo room to be luminous (despite her character's illness) and a great star. But it is also a gorgeous MGM production with strong performances from Lionel Barrymore and the rest of the cast. (Henry Daniell is a standout as the villain.) --Tom Keogh
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The Painted Veil [VHS]

The Painted Veil [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Herbert Marshall , George Brent , Warner Oland , Jean Hersholt
Director: Richard Boleslawski

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Woman of Affairs (Silent) [VHS]

Woman of Affairs (Silent) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , John Gilbert , Lewis Stone , Johnny Mack Brown , Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Director: Clarence Brown

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Flesh & The Devil [VHS]

Flesh & The Devil [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: John Gilbert , Greta Garbo , Lars Hanson , Barbara Kent , William Orlamond
Director: Clarence Brown

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Two Faced Woman [VHS]

Two Faced Woman [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas , Constance Bennett , Roland Young , Robert Sterling
Director: George Cukor

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Anna Karenina (1935) [VHS]

Anna Karenina (1935) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Fredric March , Freddie Bartholomew , Maureen O'Sullivan , May Robson
Director: Clarence Brown
Garbo won two consecutive New York Film Critics Awards for best actress in this and Camille--an altogether more satisfying selection. At 95 minutes, this handsome David O. Selznick production for MGM hasn't a prayer of doing justice to the rich supporting cast of characters in Tolstoy's thick novel (notably Kitty, through no fault of the perky Maureen O'Sullivan). That was equally true of Clarence Brown's 1927 silent version Love (1927), also starring Garbo, but it was both more passionate and more fluid; Brown's direction here gathers no momentum within scenes or in the film overall. Garbo's quiet "Too late, too late," as she realizes early on what a tragedy her obsessive love affair must lead to, is exquisitely doomed; but Fredric March makes a tiresome, even petulant, Vronsky. It's a measure of the film's misdirection that Basil Rathbone, icy-cold as the careerist husband Karenin, inspires more sympathy. At least he's entertaining. --Richard T. Jameson
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As You Desire Me [VHS]

As You Desire Me [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas , Erich von Stroheim , Owen Moore , Hedda Hopper
Director: George Fitzmaurice

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Conquest (1937) [VHS]

Conquest (1937) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Charles Boyer , Reginald Owen , Alan Marshal , Henry Stephenson
Director: Clarence Brown , Gustav Machatý

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Ninotchka (1939) [VHS]

Ninotchka (1939) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas , Ina Claire , Bela Lugosi , Sig Ruman
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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 the sale is noticed in Moscow, and Comrade Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) is dispatched to Paris to settle the matter. Soon after arrival, she meets Leon, who is charmed by her severe, uptight manner and her stunning beauty ("I love Russians! Comrade, I've been fascinated by your five-year plan for the last 15 years"), and he sets about wooing her, despite her disbelief in love (it's merely a "chemical reaction," she dourly informs him). Romance, jealousy, and capitalistic frivolity ensue.

When this film was released in 1939, it was advertised as "Garbo laughs," as it was her first and only comedy. The film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, is amusing not only for its story line, but also for its dated look at early Communism (Ninotchka keeps a photo ...
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Anna Christie (1930) [VHS]

Anna Christie (1930) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Greta Garbo , Charles Bickford , George F. Marion , Marie Dressler , James T. Mack
Director: Clarence Brown
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 utterance, came somewhat as a surprise yesterday afternoon in the Capitol, for her delivery is almost masculine." Her sultry tones were nevertheless a hit, and anyway the Swedish accent fit the character.

Anna Christie is adapted from Eugene O'Neill's play, a piece of gloom about prostitute Anna returning to her seafaring father (George F. Marion) and falling for a sailor (Charles Bickford). The movie's fascination as a Garbo milestone and slice of early-sound Hollywood easily outstrip its actual value as a work of art, for it has not aged especially well. Under the direction of Garbo regular Clarence Brown, the dialogue tends to fall on long, dead pauses and creak with early-sound-era uncertainty. But the print for the DVD rele...
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