Greta Garbo

The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film clips from the 1910s and 20s. Sigrid is played by eight different stars from her era, and she also plays herself. Sigrid Holmquist was born in Borås, Sweden and her stubborn spirit led her to become a movie star in Scandinavia and Hollywood before retiring from the movies in 1926. An experimental film project.

We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, plus many of the friends, relatives and associates who came closest to penetrating the lonely star's veil of solitude.

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Runs through Greta Garbo's life and films in chronological order in an attempt to reveal the 'real' Garbo.

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Cecilia Barriga’s culty video montage tells the story of two queens who fall in love, unwittingly played by Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Clipped from their most iconic works, the Chilean born video artist manipulates scenes from the legendary actresses to turn two of the most well known Hollywood starlets in film history into a silent-film style lesbian fantasy. Barriga drives the narrative using common motifs such as the cigarette and the one-eyed glance from beneath a wide brimmed hat, motifs which are familiar to us, but recontextualized within a queer narrative. Major points for including a rainmaker in the soundtrack.

Profile of actress Greta Garbo, narrated by Glenn Close

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrated by Bibi Andersson.

É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".

Running order of guests: 1. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (opening credits) 2. ABBA - Mamma Mia 3. Merit Hemmingson 4. Sylvia Vrethammar 5. ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 6. Björn Skifs 7. Lill Lindfors 8. ABBA - So Long 9. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (closing credits)

An American in Paris meets a young Frenchman who likes to mix sex play with a complicated mind game based on scenes from famous films.

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

A screen test for a planned adaptation of Balzac's The Duchess Of Langelais, which was never made.

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Douglas Shearer, engenheiro de som da MGM, nos leva num passeio pelos bastidores para apresentar a forma como a parte de som de um filme falado é criada. Usa o filme Divino Tormento ou Bitter Sweet (1940) (Com imagens de Jeanette MacDonald e Nelson Eddy) e o filme O Inimigo X ou Comrade X (1940) (Com imagens de Clark Gable e Hedy Lamarr) para ilustrar as técnicas. Partes deste curta estão em Technicolor, incluindo um impressionante teste de tela de Greer Garson para o filme Flores do Pó ou Blossoms in the Dust (1941). O resultado é um "desfile" de trailers dos próximos filmes da MGM que mostram quase toda a constelação de estrelas da MGM.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

Nina Yakushova (Greta Garbo), comissária do governo soviético, é mandada a Paris para averiguar o comportamento de três representantes do governo que têm como missão negociar uma jóia. Aos poucos sucumbe ao capitalismo e a Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), um galanteador francês que está apaixonado por ela.

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.

A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.

Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), uma cortesã, conhece o amor, mas é humilhada pelo antigo amante e o pai de seu novo amor, Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), que lhe diz que ela destruirá o futuro do seu filho. Diante deste quadro, apesar de amá-lo loucamente, ela não só o abandona como o faz acreditar que voltará para o seu antigo amante e protetor.

Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Naquele que é considerado seu maior papel, Greta Garbo interpreta a Rainha Christina de Suécia, que no Século XVII, chocou toda Europa ao renunciar o trono por amor à Don Antônio. O roteiro de H.M combinado à direção de Rouben Mamoulian fazem deste um dos melhores filmes já surgidos na usina de sonhos de Hollywood.

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

A dançarina Grusinskaya não crê no amor e não tem um rumo em sua vida, mas muda seu pensamento completamente ao conhecer o falido barão Felix von Geigern. Este, por sua vez, se torna amigo de Otto Kringelein, um homem que descobriu que está à beira da morte e decide passar seus últimos dias no luxuoso hotel em que está seu patrão, um rico empresário que pretende fechar um grande negócio e que conta com os serviços da taquígrafa Flaemmchen.

Durante a 1ª Guerra Mundial uma espiã alemã faz-se passar por bailarina, no intuito de obter documentos das tropas russas. Ela se torna amante de um tenente-coronel, desconhecendo o fato dele possuir os documentos que almeja.

A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.

The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.

A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)

O padre Tom apaixona-se por Rita Cavallini, uma cantora de ópera. Mas Rita está presa ao rico Cornelius Van Tuyl, seu antigo amor, o que dificulta as coisas. A história é contada pelo agora bispo Tom ao jovem Harry, que deseja casar-se com uma atriz.

Quinze anos após ter mandado a sua filha Anna viver com os seus parentes em St. Paul, o velho marinheiro Chris Christofferson anseia o regressa da jovem, agora já adulta. As expectativas que tinha sobre a filha acabam por se gorar quando constata que Anna passou afinal por uma vida cheia de dificuldades, na qual se teve, inclusivamente, que prostituir. Uma noite, junto à costa onde vivem, um navio naufraga. Chris, ajudado por Anna, consegue salvar três jovens marinheiros. Anna apaixona-se por um deles, Matt, contra a vontade do pai…

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

Na São Francisco do início do século, mulher choca a sociedade ao viver caso extra-conjugal. Desta vez Garbo era Arden Stuart, a mulher que leva seu chofer para dar um passeio de carro à noite. Ela foge da festa chatíssima que acontece naquela casa e de repente o espectador se encontra diante de uma Garbo apaixonada por seu motorista. Os dois estão em um lugar deserto, deitados, e se beijam

An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.

A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?

Tania Fedorova (Garbo), uma espiã soviética no mundo pré-guerra, seduz o capitão do exército Karl Von Raden (Nigel), com intenção de furtar documentos secretos. Enquanto o austríaco Von Raden assiste à ópera, numa noite, conhece Tania. Após a performance, ele a leva para sua casa, e os dois passam o dia seguinte em um passeio romântico. Naquela noite, Karl deve entregar alguns planos importantes em Berlim. Pouco antes de embarcar no trem, ele descobre algo sobre Tania.

Marianne é uma garota pobre que vai para Paris para ser atriz no teatro. Quando começa a fazer sucesso ela deve escolher entre o amor de dois homens, Lucien, um soldado apaixonado que abandona o exército para ficar com ela, ou Henry Legrand, um rico de meia-idade produtor Paris que lhe oferece a oportunidade para ter fama e fortuna.

Na Rússia czarista, Anna Karenina apaixona-se pelo oficial Conde Vronsky, abandonando seu marido e filho para virar amante do militar. A tragédia se abate quando Vronsky escolhe sua carreira militar em detrimento à Karenina.

Leo (John Gilbert) e Ulrich (Lars Hanson) são amigos desde a infância. Apaixonado por Felicitas (Greta Garbo), que é casada, Leo acaba matando seu marido. Como punição, ele é transferido para África e pede a Ulrich que cuide de Felicitas por três anos. Sem saber que Leo a ama, Ulrich se apaixona por Felicitas e se casa com ela. Ao voltar, Leo acaba divido entre a paixão e a amizade.

Em um baile de máscaras em Paris, Robledo Manuel, jovem arquiteto argentino, conhece Elena, a Marquesa e Torre Blanca. Mais tarde, a jovem é acusada de causar infortúnios e de dilapidar a fortuna de Fontenoy, que se apaixonara por ela. Para escapar dos mexericos, o Marquês de Torre Blanca transfere residência para a Argentina. Lá, Elena reencontra Manuel...

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.

Viena, anos 1920. Duas mulheres nem imaginavam, mas teriam seus destinos completamente mudados por acasos do destino. Vivendo com dificuldade na tumultuada capital da Áustria afetada grandemente pela Primeira Guerra Mundial, uma delas acaba se tornando prostitua e a outra por sorte é salva pelo amor de um americano da Cruz Vermelha

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.

Greta Garbo in her first feature "Luffar-Petter" (Petter The Tramp) 1922.

The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the elegant guests is deprived of her jewelry.

In this short Advertising/Promotional film, Greta points at the town of Malmö on a wall map. Greta Garbo's third promotional film.

In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in the park.

Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.

Mr and Mrs Stockholm visit the Paul U. Bergström (PUB) department store to buy a new wardrobe after their home had previously been destroyed by a fire. They visit different departments, where the future Greta Garbo is one of the models showing outfits for Mrs Stockholm.