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Grand Hotel review by from London

The other side of paradise 25 March 2004
...intment. There are powerful moments, of course, like one cannot help but notice Greta Garbo's characteristic manly walk, trotting forth with large and firm steps and forwa... Read customer review

Greta Garbo - filmography

The Painted Veil (1994)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Certificate:
In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister's marriage and she agrees to marry her father's research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Fane takes her to China but constantly ignores her in favour of his medical research. Lonely Katrin has an affair with Jack Townsend of the British Embassy. When it is ..read more »

33% from 3 members
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Ninotchka (1939)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Certificate:
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 ..read more »

73% from 260 members
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Camille (1936)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Director: George Cukor
Certificate:
1847 - In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatre, balls and gambling clubs where the code was discretion ... but the game was romance. This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands of popularity - ..read more »

69% from 138 members
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Anna Karenina (1935)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
Director: Clarence Brown
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Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life. Leo Tolstoy's novel receives sumptuous treatment in David O. Selznick's production. ..read more »

71% from 105 members
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Queen Christina (1933)
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Certificate:
An old Hollywood classic starring Greta Garbo as Queen Christina

71% from 150 members
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Grand Hotel (1932)
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Director: Edmund Goulding
Certificate:
The creme de la creme of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious GRAND HOTEL, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. ..read more »

65% from 948 members
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Mata Hari (1931)
Starring: Greta Garbo
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Certificate:
Mata Hari: the name breathes mystery, intrigue and sexual allure. Who better to play the notorious World War I spy than Greta Garbo, the enigmatic, exquisite screen icon called The Swedish Sphinx? Garbo is mesmerizing as the dancer-turned-German secret agent in a wartime Paris seething with secrets ..read more »

70% from 89 members
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Anna Christie (1930)
Starring: Greta Garbo
Director: Clarence Brown
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Greta Garbo plays a former prostitute who falls in love with a seaman aboard her father's barge and tries to hide her ignoble past.

69% from 76 members
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The Kiss (1929)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf
Director: Jacques Feyder
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Irene is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer. He doesn't want to add to her unhappiness by ruining her marriage; she is terrified of her husband's jealousy and anger. They decide to stop seeing each other, and she bides her time with Pierre, ..read more »

60% from 1 member
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A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone
Director: Clarence Brown
Certificate:
Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could not be used when it was adapted to film. Retitled A Woman of Affairs, this tale of a woman destroyed by syphilis was heavily laundered for the screen. Greta Garbo plays an ..read more »

30% from 1 member
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The Mysterious Lady on DVD (1928)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Director: Fred Niblo
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An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

59% from 83 members

Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Starring: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
Director: Clarence Brown
Certificate:
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The lifelong friendship between Leo and Ulrich is tested when they encounter Felicitas. Falling instantly in love, Leo is forced to take part in a duel with her husband, whom he kills. Sent to serve in Africa for five years, Leo asks Ulrich to take care of Felicitas...which he promptly does by ..read more »

67% from 188 members
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Greta Garbo Box Set (6 discs)
Starring: Greta Garbo
Director: George Fitzmaurice, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamou
Certificate:
A collection of classics starring Greta Garbo: Mata Hari (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), Ninotchka (1939), Queen Christina (1933), Anna Christie (1930) and Camille (1936).

70% from 412 members
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Greta Garbo facts

5 most recent films

The Painted Veil - 1.5 stars
Ninotchka - 3.5 stars
Camille - 3.5 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.5 stars
Queen Christina - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ninotchka - 3.5 stars
Queen Christina - 3.5 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.5 stars
Greta Garbo Box Set - 3.5 stars
Mata Hari - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Woman of Affairs - 1.5 stars
The Painted Veil - 1.5 stars
The Kiss - 3.0 stars
The Mysterious Lady - 3.0 stars
Grand Hotel - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Gilbert - 4 times - show films
Lars Hanson - 3 times - show films
Conrad Nagel - 2 times - show films
Barbara Kent - 2 times - show films
Lionel Barrymore - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Clarence Brown - 5 times - show films
George Fitzmaurice - 2 times - show films
Ernst Lubitsch - 2 times - show films
Rouben Mamoulian - 1 times - show films
Gardening - 1 times - show films