Acting

Greta Garbo

Born September 18, 1905 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Died April 15, 1990 · aged 84

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-American actress, widely regarded as one of the greatest stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Known for her melancholic and enigmatic screen presence, she starred in iconic films such as Anna Karenina, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka. Throughout her career, she was celebrated for her subtle and unde…

Known For

Susan Lenox

Susan Lenox · 1931

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel · 1932

MovieDramaRomance

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · 2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

MovieDramaRomance

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

Marlowe

Marlowe · 1969

MovieCrimeMystery

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.

Mata Hari

Mata Hari · 1931

MovieCrimeDrama

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Camille

Camille · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Queen Christina

Queen Christina · 1934

Queen Christina

MovieRomanceHistory

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

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Susan Lenox

Susan Lenox · 1931

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Helga, aka Susan Lenox

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel · 1932

MovieDramaRomance

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Grusinskaya

Ninotchka

Ninotchka · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Nina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · 2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

MovieDramaRomance

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

(archive footage)

Marlowe

Marlowe · 1969

MovieCrimeMystery

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.

Grusinskaya(archive footage) (uncredited)

Mata Hari

Mata Hari · 1931

MovieCrimeDrama

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Mata Hari

Camille

Camille · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Marguerite Gautier

Queen Christina

Queen Christina · 1934

Queen Christina

MovieRomanceHistory

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Christina

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina · 1935

MovieHistoryDrama

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

Peter the Tramp

Peter the Tramp · 1922

Peter the Tramp

Greta Garbo in her first feature "Luffar-Petter" (Petter The Tramp) 1922. Only a 10-minute fragment of the film has survived. She plays one of the three daughters of a fireman who is robbed by the vagrant Peter. The two leading male roles—the fireman and the vagrant—are played by Eric Petschler, who is also the film's director and screenwriter.

Greta

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil · 1934

The Painted Veil

MovieDramaRomance

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

Katrin Koerber Fane

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil · 1926

Flesh and the Devil

MovieDramaRomance

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

Felicitas

Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman · 1941

Two-Faced Woman

MovieComedyRomance

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

Karin Borg Blake

Torrent

Torrent · 1926

MovieRomanceDrama

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.

Leonora Moreno

Conquest

Conquest · 1937

MovieHistoryDrama

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

Countess Marie Walewska

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II · 1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

(archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy · 1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

MovieComedyDocumentary

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

Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)

The Mysterious Lady

The Mysterious Lady · 1928

The Mysterious Lady

MovieAdventureDrama

A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.

Tania Fedorova

Anna Christie

Anna Christie · 1930

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.)

Anna Christie

Love

MovieDramaRomance

In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.

Anna Karenina

Hollywood sul Tevere

Hollywood sul Tevere · 2009

Hollywood sul Tevere

MovieDocumentary

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

The Casting Couch

The Casting Couch · 1995

The Casting Couch

MovieDocumentary

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.

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread · 1921

Our Daily Bread

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.

Companion

Romance

Romance · 1930

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.

Rita Cavallini

MGM Parade

MGM Parade · 1955

The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, the format changed to show edited versions of MGM films.

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year · 2023

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year

SeriesDocumentary

This two-part documentary series explores 1939, the greatest year in Hollywood history, telling the behind-the-scenes stories of films like Gone With The Wind, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach and The Wizard of Oz.