Anna Christie 1930  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, Lee Phelps, James T. Mack
This is a good version of Eugene O'Neill's play about former prostitute Anna Christie (Greta Garbo) who, after a life of trial and tribulation, finds happiness with a sailor, Matt Burke (Charles Bickford). The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Actress (Garbo), and Cinematography.
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Anna Karenina 1935  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Reginald Denny, Dennis O'Keefe, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Joan Marsh
Greta Garbo takes on the title role in this film, which tells Leo Tolstoy's story about a woman who gives up everything to be with Count Vronsky (Fredric March); but happiness is elusive.
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As You Desire Me 1932  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper, Rafaela Ottiano, Albert Conti, Roland Varno, Warburton Gamble, William Ricciardi, Edmund Breese
Amnesiac Zara (Greta Garbo) is reunited with her husband (Melvyn Douglas) after her 10-year disappearance caused by violence during the Australian invasion. Despite her amnesia, she falls in love with him again.
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 Camille 1936 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Laura Hope Crews, E.E. Clive, Joan Leslie, Fritz Leiber Jr., Lenore Ulric, Rex O'Malley, Eily Malyon, Olaf Hytten, Gwendolyn Logan
In one of Greta Garbo's most famous roles, she plays the Parisian prostitute, Camille, who has been supported by her consort, the wealthy Baron de Varville (Henry Daniell). Love does not enter the picture until Camille meets French nobleman Armand Duvall (Robert Taylor), and he becomes the love of her life. Camille decides to leave the baron and then finds that Armand's father (Lionel Barrymore) disapproves of her past and wants her to leave his son alone. Camille tries to leave Armand, but Armand pursues and supports Camille even as she lies dying from tuberculosis. Based on Alexandre Dumas' novel, this is also the story that Verdi used for "La Traviata."
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Flesh and the Devil 1926  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond, George Fawcett, Eugenie Besserer, Marc McDermott, Marcelle Corday, Rolfe Sedan
The friendship of military cadets Leo von Harden (John Gilbert) and Ulrich von Eltz (Lars Hanson) is almost destroyed because of the immoral temptation of femme fatale Felicitas (Greta Garbo).
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Gosta Berlings Saga 1924 N/R, 184 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: The Atonement of Gosta Berling
The Legend of Gosta Berling
The Story of Gosta Berling
Director: Mauritz Stiller
Cast: Lars Hanson, Greta Garbo, Gerda Lundequist, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederstrom, Mona Martenson, Torsten Hammaren, Jenny Hasselqvist, Sixten Malmerfelt, Karin Swanstrom
A defrocked priest, Gosta Berling (Lars Hanson), falls in love with beautiful, but already married Elizabeth (Greta Garbo) in this silent film from Sweden that introduced Greta Garbo to MGM director Mauritz Stiller and, hence, to the world.
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Grand Hotel 1932 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Rafaela Ottiano, Tully Marshall, Lewis Stone, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Morgan Wallace, Frank Conroy, Murray Kinnell
This anthology won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1931-1932. The story takes place in Berlin following World War I and involves guests of the Grand Hotel. Among those visiting are a ballerina (Greta Garbo), a jewel thief (John Barrymore), and a young stenographer (Joan Crawford).
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 Mata Hari 1931 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon, Karen Morley, Alec B. Francis, Blanche Friderici, Edmund Breese, Helen Jerome Eddy, Frank Reicher, Sarah Padden
The infamous World War I spy, Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), uses her sexuality to get her hands on secret papers but is finally caught after falling in love with Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and allowing love, not the Nazis, to govern her actions.
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The Mysterious Lady 1928 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Niblo
Cast: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Albert Pollet, Edward Connelly, Richard Alexander, Russ Powell
While performing her duties of stealing papers from Austrian Captain Karl von Raden (Conrad Nagel), Russian spy Tania Fedorava (Greta Garbo) falls in love with him. When the chief spy, General Boris Alexandroff (Gustav von Seyffertitz), figures out what is happening, the captain's death sentence is ordered.
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Ninotchka 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Bela Lugosi, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Richard Carle, Edwin Maxwell
This pre-cold-war-era film pits the ideals of Communism against those of Capitalists in a very entertaining film featuring Greta Garbo as Ninotchka, the emissary from Russia whose head and heart are turned by love. There were Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Actress, and Writing (both Original Story and Screenplay).
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 Queen Christina 1933 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Georges Renavent, David Torrence, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Ferdinand Munier, Akim Tamiroff
Based on the life of 17th-century Queen of Sweden Christina (Greta Garbo), this story involves her love affair with a Spanish ambassador, Antonio (John Gilbert), that has the whole country questioning the wisdom of having a Catholic as a member of the royal family.
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Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise 1931 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Alan Hale, Hale Hamilton, Theodore von Eltz, Russell Simpson, Cecil Cunningham, Ian Keith
A Swedish immigrant, Susan Lenox (Greta Garbo), heads for the city to escape from her father and ends up in the arms of Rodney (Clark Gable).
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The Temptress 1926 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Cast: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott, Lionel Barrymore, Roy D'Arcy, Armand Kaliz, Virginia Brown Faire, Robert Anderson, Francis McDonald, Hector Sarno
The Marquise, Elena (Greta Garbo), is a beautiful woman, but she brings destruction to all with her enticements that drive men crazy.
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| 1. Anna Christie (1930)
2. Anna Karenina (1935)
3. As You Desire Me (1932)
4. Camille (1936)
5. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
6. Gosta Berlings Saga (1924)
aka: The Atonement of Gosta Berling
aka: The Legend of Gosta Berling
aka: The Story of Gosta Berling
7. Grand Hotel (1932)
8. Mata Hari (1931)
9. The Mysterious Lady (1928)
10. Ninotchka (1939)
11. Queen Christina (1933)
12. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931)
13. The Temptress (1926)
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