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A collection of classics starring Greta Garbo: Mata Hari (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), Ninotchka (1939), Queen Christina (1933), Anna Christie (1930) and Camille (1936). Read more

Starring Greta Garbo
Director George Fitzmaurice, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamou
Genres Drama

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Greta Garbo Box Set

A collection of classics starring Greta Garbo: Mata Hari (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), Ninotchka (1939), Queen Christina (1933), Anna Christie (1930) and Camille (1936).

Starring Greta Garbo
Director George Fitzmaurice, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamou
Run time DVD: 9 hrs 40 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Drama
Released DVD: 27 Feb 2006
Format DVD

Greta Garbo Box Set (6 discs)

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  • Sign up Ninotchka

    Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen ...

  • Sign up Queen Christina

    An old Hollywood classic starring Greta Garbo as Queen Christina...

  • Sign up Camille

    1847 - In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatre...

  • Sign up Anna Christie

    Greta Garbo plays a former prostitute who falls in love with a seaman aboard her father's barge and tries to h...

  • Sign up Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ...

  • Sign up Mata Hari

    Mata Hari: the name breathes mystery, intrigue and sexual allure. Who better to play the notorious World War I...

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    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Garbo talks - and so does everyone else

    All the other major Hollywood stars (Chaplin excepted, of course) had chanced their voices with the talkies by this time, with a few (most notably John Gilbert) taking a bath when they didn't sound quite like they looked. MGM were worried the same would happen to Garbo, with her extraordinary husky bass and Swedish accent. Which makes you wonder why they should have chosen a very talkie play by Eugene O'Neill for her sound debut.

    Still, from the moment she enters, and then remains silent for almost a further minute, she is in complete control. 'Gif me a whiskey. Ginger ale on the side,' she says, and from then on we know she isn't the ideal daughter he slightly batty father (George Marion) imagines. He sent her away to relatives in Minnesota to be far from 'dat old devil sea', but it hasn't done her much good, as dad and the sailor who falls for her (Charles Bickford) discover.

    We don't care, because it's Garbo, and she's magical, even when the film bogs down. Director Clarence Brown tries hard to create the right waterfront atmosphere, and the players work very hard (particularly Marie Dressler as Marion's permanently drunken girlfriend), but O'Neill is a slog if you take him too seriously - which this film undoubtedly does.

    The adventurous (or just big fans of the star) should search out the French version of the film, shot simultaneously by Jacques Feyder: Garbo is even finer in that.

      • Savage from London, England
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    GARBO SHINES FOR THE AGES

    Garbo defines the term ' star quality ' in what is generally regarded as her finest hour - as the tragic Marguerite she radiates wit and melancholy,experience and innocence,wisdom and naivete.William Daniels never photographed her more beautifully and George Cukors direction is sympathetic and sensitive to her every mood.

      • A customer from LONDON
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