Arguably Greta Garbo's best MGM movie--depending how you feel about Camille and Ninotchka--this tale of the 17th-century Swedish monarch who preferred men's togs to gowns plays the most provocative games with the great star's ambisexual personality. At her request, Rouben Mamoulian directed (all three Garbo's-best-movie candidates were done by the best directors she worked with: Mamoulian, George Cukor, and Ernst Lubitsch). Two sequences are legendary: Christina memorizing the room at a snowbound inn where she has first experienced love; and the long, concluding closeup of a queen become ship's- figurehead--as blank as a tabula rasa, and filled with all the meaning and emotion seven decades of audiences have chosen to see there. Those scenes are anthology pieces, but unlike most Garbo... Less

Three Greta Garbo films from the silent era are collected here. FLESH AND THE DEVIL: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert star in this classic silent melodrama about a love triangle between two boyhood friends and the amoral seductress who comes between them. Best friends Leo (Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are cadets at a military academy when Leo falls madly in love with the gorgeous and aristocratic Countess Felicitas von Kletzingk (Garbo). However, Felicitas neglects to tell him that she has a husband who, upon discovering the affair, challenges Leo to a duel. Leo kills von Kletzingk and is sentenced to five years of foreign service in Africa. Felicitas promises to wait for her brave young lover, and Leo asks Ulrich to look after the grieving widow until his return. After three years, Leo... Less

BIOGRAPHY--GRETA GARBO: THE MYSTERIOUS LADY by A&E

The seventh and final collaboration between Greta Garbo and her favorite director Clarence Brown, Conquest vividly recreates one of the most celebrated romances in history: the ill-fated love affair between Polish countess Marie Walewska (Garbo) and the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer in the first of his three career Oscar®- nominated* performances). Featuring lavish sets, stunning costumes and a dazzling array of historical reenactments, Conquest took five months to film at a then-staggering cost of $3 million. The chemistry between Garbo and Boyer is electric, resulting in a poignant love story that's lost none of its power to conquer the attention of movie lovers across the generations.

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 script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. "At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous," he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch. That's how we see Garbo's lovestruck Ninotchka: serenly dignified yet endearing ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.

A dying mother's (Anne Bancroft) last wish to meet Greta Garbo costs her son (Ron Silver) his job, his marriage and his dignity. Carrie Fisher also stars in this slice-of-life film from director Sidney Lumet.

Three and a half minutes into Torrent, the camera discovers an actress, new to Hollywood, her hands clasped in prayer -- and an international screen legend is born. After appearing in only two films in her native Sweden, Greta Garbo starred in this tempestuous tale of the star-crossed romance between a Spanish nobleman (charismatic Ricardo Cortez) and a peasant girl (Garbo) who, even after finding fame as an opera star, can never forget the aristocrat she loves. In its review, Variety spoke for audiences enthralled by the lanky newcomer with the expressive, astonishingly beautiful face: "Greta Garbo, making her American debut as a screen star, might just as well be hailed here as the find of the year." Or any year.

This version of the Tolstoy classic lingers longer in Moscow during the weeks that follow the initial meeting of the starstruck lovers-to-be Vronsky and Anna Karenina. The story -- as it unfolds -- also focuses on Kitty, a young woman who is related to Anna's sister-in-law whose marital rift has brought Anna to Moscow. Until Anna shows up, Kitty had hopes of getting Vronsky, who is single and well connected, to propose to her. Ignored by Vronsky, Kitty turns her attention to another suitor, a man who seems to have a lot in common with Tolstoy.

As an Italian opera diva, Greta Garbo is luminous, haunting, desirable, mysterious and transcendentally lovely. No wonder she personifies romance for both an aging millionaire (Lewis Stone) and a boyish rector (Gavin Gordon) caught in the tortured throes of a forbidden love. Garbo followed up her smash talkie debut Anna Christie with this tale of a woman whose tender relationship with the younger clergyman is crushed by her remorse over her illicit affair with the wealthy roué. Suffused with glamour and ardent emotion, Romance earned a Best Actress Academy Award® nomination for Garbo and a Best Director nod for Clarence Brown, who guided his leading lady in several classic pictures, including Anna Christie and Anna Karenina.

This TCM Archives: The Garbo Silents Collection focuses on Greta Garbo s earliest years in Hollywood. In The Temptress (1926, Disc 2) Garbo establishes her magnetic screen persona as a vamp who destroys the lives of men who cannot resist her charms. In Flesh and the Devil (1927, Disc 1), she is an irresistible vixen who comes between lifelong friends John Gilbert and Lars Hanson, and in The Mysterious Lady (1928, Disc 2), a Russian spy who seduces her victims. Each film contributed mightily in building the Garbo legend that still manages to fascinate audiences almost 80 years later.

Release Date: 1998-06-02, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Not to be confused with the Greta Garbo melodrama of the same name the romantic comedy CAMILLE stars Sienna Miller and James Franco as a pair of lovers on the run. But what saves this from being yet another BONNIE AND CLYDE knock-off is the simple fact that Camille Miller STARDUST is dead. Franco THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS plays Silas Parker a man who reluctantly marries his parole officer's daughter Camille so he can take her to Niagra Falls and skip across the border into Canada. When the motorcycle- riding couple has an accident Silas begins to notice some strange things about his blushing bride as her hair falls out and grows pale. Armed with a wig and a vat of Formaldehyde the couple tries to prove their love can last as they evade the authorities. CAMILLE also stars David Carradine and... Less

This lavish, Americanized remake of "Grand Hotel" features Lana Turner and Ginger Rogers in the roles originated by Jean Crawford and Greta Garbo. Turner portrays the ambitious hotel stenographer who must choose between love and money.

A dying mother's (Anne Bancroft) last wish to meet Greta Garbo costs her son (Ron Silver) his job, his marriage and his dignity. Carrie Fisher also stars in this slice-of-life film from director Sidney Lumet.

Greta Garbo stars as a fickle and unscrupulous femme fatale who uses her vampy wiles to get what she wants! And what she wants is to have a series of men in her life at her beck and call, including husband Lionel Barrymore, wealthy French lover Marc McDermott, and Argentine engineer Antonio Moreno. Armand Kaliz, Roy D'Arcy co-star in this romantic silent classic. 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Dolby Digital mono music score. Silent with music score.

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

"Long before the word charisma became a cliché, Garbo was its quintessence" (James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers, The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era). To generations of fans and critics, Greta Garbo is the screen's greatest actress, greatest beauty...and greatest mystery. The Swedish Sphinx conquered silents and talkies, and Wild Orchids showcases both her astonishing talent and her incomparable beauty. Garbo portrays Lillie Sterling, the neglected wife of an American businessman (Lewis Stone), who journeys into the exotic jungles of Java and into a steamy triangle of husband, wife and dashing plantation owner (Nils Asther). As passion flares, so does jealousy. Then the plantation owner and Lillie's husband embark on a tiger hunt...but the real prey may not be tigers.This product... Less

   &n bsp  &nbs p  Product DetailsOriginal Title:Queen ChristinaActors: Elizabeth Young - Greta Garbo - Ian Keith - John Gilbert - Lewis StoneDirector: Rouben MamoulianConditio n: NEWFormat: DVDRuntime: 99 minsLanguage: EnglishRegion code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories) Discs: 1Rating: UnratedGenre: DramaRelease Year: 1933Your browser does not support iframes.

One of the masters of early German cinema, G.W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora’s Box. Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks, and a testament to Brooks’s dazzling individuality.

As an Italian opera diva, Greta Garbo is luminous, haunting, desirable, mysterious and transcendentally lovely. No wonder she personifies romance for both an aging millionaire (Lewis Stone) and a boyish rector (Gavin Gordon) caught in the tortured throes of a forbidden love. Garbo followed up her smash talkie debut Anna Christie with this tale of a woman whose tender relationship with the younger clergyman is crushed by her remorse over her illicit affair with the wealthy roué. Suffused with glamour and ardent emotion, Romance earned a Best Actress Academy Award® nomination for Garbo and a Best Director nod for Clarence Brown, who guided his leading lady in several classic pictures, including Anna Christie and Anna Karenina.

Irene Guarry fives an infatuated young man an innocent kiss, a gesture that leads to jealousy, death and an explosive murder trial. A bit much for a single kiss, you may think-unless the lips belong to screen goddess Greta Garbo. In her last silent film,

Raise a cinematic champagne glass to debonair leading man Robert Montgomery, one of MGM's leading lights of the 1930s and 1940s. This bountiful 5-Disc, 10-Movie Collection showcases the versatile actor in dramas and comedies alike. Co-stars include Greta Garbo, Rosalind Russell, Tallulah Bankhead and some of the best supporting players in Hollywood history.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Greta Garbo stars as a fickle and unscrupulous femme fatale who uses her vampy wiles to get what she wants! And what she wants is to have a series of men in her life at her beck and call, including husband Lionel Barrymore, wealthy French lover Marc McDermott, and Argentine engineer Antonio Moreno. Armand Kaliz, Roy D'Arcy co-star in this romantic silent classic. 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Dolby Digital mono music score. Silent with music score.

   &n bsp  &nbs p  Product DetailsOriginal Title:Grand Hotel (Special Edition) (Keepcase) Actors: Clarence Rock - Greta Garbo - Jack Lionel Bohn - Joan Crawford - John BarrymoreDirector : Edmund GouldingCondition : USEDFormat: dvdRuntime: 112 minsLanguage: English Subtitle: English SubtitlesDiscs: 1Region code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories) Rating: PG-13Genre: DramaSubgenre: ClassicRelease Year: 1932Your browser does not support iframes.