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Two-Faced Woman (1941) - Georges Cukor

2005-10-31T09:38:00.002+01:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September and in October 2005 i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs".
Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
Let's hope that Warner will release on DVD these movies some day or other in the future.

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Garbo hadn't played in two years (she played with huge success in Lubitsch's Ninotchka in 1939) when she was proposed by her friend Salka Viertel to play in Two-Faced Woman. George Cukor was chosen to direct it after having directed her successfully in Camille.
It should have been good.

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"They {the producers} wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real american type. I said 'She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her'." Adrian (Garbo costume designer)

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Yes Garbo was getting older but she was still charming as these shots prove it.

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"Afraid to question the intellectuals to whom she had entrusted her career, the most she could do was to whisper to Melvyn Douglas and Mercedes de Acosta: 'They're trying to kill me'."
Mark Viera's Greta Garbo A Cinematic Legacy.

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"George Cukor insisted on filming her emerging from a pool in a swimming suit and, no great bodily beauty by Hollywood standards, she loathed the scene." Melvyn Douglas

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Constance Bennett nearly steals the show with her scenes with Garbo.

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The famous Rhumba scene and la Chica Choca.
You have to see it to believe it !! but Garbo is surprisingly convincing and having fun even though this wasn't real.

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"With Garbo, the problem is to make her forget her shyness, to make her feel that everybody is for her rather than against her. That is done by keeping the atmosphere light and friendly, by laughting, telling jokes, not by standing in awe. After Garbo is loosened up, the rest is easy." George Cukor

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Two-Faced Woman had problems with censorship because of its supposedly gloryfying of adultery if you believe the catholic Legion of Decency (which i hope you don't). So scenes were cut and sometimes the movie itself was banned in cities like Boston or boycotted by catholics in cities like Los Angeles. In Omaha, a scene in which Garbo lies languorously on a divan in her husband's apartment has been termed "improper" and that portion has been deleted in screenings here.
From Mark Viera's Greta Garbo A Cinematic Legacy.

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When Garbo heard of the controversy she said quietly :
"They've dug my grave."

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One day Cukor entered her dressing room during the retakes. Garbo looked in her mirror and suddenly said :"I am old!" and she noticed to him two very fine lines running vertically from her top lip. She said :"Those lines will get deeper. I must quit."
From Mark Viera's Greta Garbo A Cinematic Legacy.

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This the last Garbo movie. She was 36, had played in 24 movies in 15 years in Hollywood. "I think that Greta's regret was more in her soul for having allowed herself to be influenced into lowering her own high standards. She said, 'I will never act in another film'." Mercedes de Acosta.

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"This George Cukor romantic comedy casts Garbo as ski instructor Karin Borg Blake. She gives lessons to wealthy American playboy Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas), and the two fall in love and marry even though Larry has a girlfriend named Griselda Vaughn (Constance Bennett) waiting for him back in New York. Returning to New York, Karin fears that Griselda will win Larry back. In an effort to foil Larry's imagined dalliance, Karin poses as her own twin sister, Katherine, hoping to get Larry to fall in love with her instead of Griselda. Larry is onto the scheme and plays along with her, pretending to fall in love with Katherine. But this infuriates Karin, who can't believe that her husband would fall in love with her sister, and she storms back to her ski resort."
Paul Brenner. All Movie Guide

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Two-Faced Woman has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in december 1993.

I hope you have enjoyed these 2 months of captures along Greta Garbo.
Now i will let this blog live its life as long as possible and hopefully enjoy more Garbo fans throughout the world wide web.
Thanks to anyone who kindly commented these captures here or there

- Bibliography -
Books that have helped me and worth checking if you love Greta Garbo :

Mark A. Vieira - Greta Garbo : A Cinematic Legacy - Publisher: Harry N Abrams (August 1, 2005)
Barry Paris - Garbo : A Biography - Publisher: Knopf (February 21, 1995)
Scott Reisfield, Robert Dance - Garbo : Portraits from her Private Collections - Publisher: Rizzoli (August 30, 2005)
Sven Broman - Conversations With Greta Garbo - Publisher: Viking Adult (March 24, 1992)
Raymond Durgnat / John Kobal - Greta Garbo - Publisher: Studio Vista/Dutton Vista pictureback (1965)
John Bainbridge - Greta Garbo - Publisher : Doubleday, 1955.
Robert Payne - The Great Garbo - Publisher : Coopersquarepress, 1976.
Karen Swenson - Greta Garbo: A Life Apart - Publisher: Scribner (September 16, 1997)
Klaus Sembach - Greta Garbo Photographs, 1920-1951 - Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel, 1986.
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You could keep in touch with me visiting my other blog dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs" : 24 Lies Per Second.
I hope to see you there.

bye bye now

Conquest (1937) - Clarence Brown

2005-10-28T10:28:00.000+02:00

The Painted Veil (1934) - Richard Boleslawski

2005-10-24T10:16:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs". I will now keep on focusing on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
I will now capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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Let me put this clear.
The Painted Veil is the worst movie EVER with Garbo.
First of all it is poorly directed by Richard Boleslawski, happilly Williams Daniels is still the cinematographer so we'll have some beautiful shots. Then her two leading men are absolutely insignificant, George Brent who plays her lover is ridiculous. You just can't believe that Garbo will fall deeply in love with someone so self-righteous. Garbo is doing what she can with a plot so cliche and fortunately for us, she did it well once again. But you can only agree with her when she said that this movie was "rubbish".
Letter to H.Wachmeister. july 28th 1934. In Conversations With Greta Garbo - Sven Broman (Viking Penquin)

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Strangely, The Painted Veil has been made between 2 Garbo masterpieces : Queen Christina & Anna Karenina.

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"Her eyes deny the strange sound which your lips utter."

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"How could you ? i could!"

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I love this scene. Unfortunately, i had to trick the capture in Picasa for the reflection in the window to appear.
But what reflection ? don't you agree ?

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While playing the movie she wrote : "The only natural thing for me to do right now would be to disappear from films and get people to forget totally that i ever existed."
Letter to H.Wachmeister. july 28th 1934. In Conversations With Greta Garbo - Sven Broman (Viking Penquin)

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"Clearly many things have gone wrong: the story, the scene, the plot, the characterization, the direction, the choice of actors...There seems to have been a conspiracy to reduce Garbo to meaninglessness."
Robert Payne. The Great Garbo. CooperSquarePress.

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"Again Greta Garbo triumphs by the sheer beauty of herself and her spirit over a picture that is only tolerable because what she gives to it."
Norbert Lusk in Picture Play magazine.

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I love the way she's praying in that scene in quite a naive way.
That's the closer we can get to imagine Garbo as Joan Of Arc. Indeed, her friend Mercedes D'Acosta has wrote this script for her for long months during the production and the shooting of The Painted Veil but eventually it failed when Garbo didn't want to do it for reasons unknown.
I personally think that it is a great loss for all of us who considered the Cinematograph as an art & not only as an industry.

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"It's such a pity that i'm not home. I think about it and long for it every moment. But prostitutes are never very happy. I've already been back here for more than two and a half years now and have only made two films. It's that's awful contract i signed and i can do nothing about it."
Letter to H.Wachmeister. 1934. In Conversations With Greta Garbo - Sven Broman (Viking Penquin)

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"Katrin (Garbo) marries Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) and goes with him to China where his practice keeps him busy and her alone. She meets Jack Townsend (George Brent), a diplomatic attaché, and has an affair with him. Fane finds out and gives Katrin an ultimatum: he is going into the interior to fight a cholera epidemic and she must go with him unless Townsend divorces his wife and marries her. Townsend refuses to give up his career and Katrin accompanies her husband. Eventually Fane changes his mind and gives her the opportunity to leave, but Katrin stays and becomes a tireless working administering to the cholera victims. But when Fane orders a district burned to prevent the spread of the disease he is stabbed by an angry Chinese. As Katrin learns what has happened to her husband, Townsend returns."
Lawrance M. Bernabo. An Amazon reviewer.

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
The Painted Veil has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in november 1990.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie : Conquest .
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

Inspiration (1931) - Clarence Brown

2005-10-21T10:25:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs". I will now keep on focusing on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
I will now capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
The Painted Veil (1934) - Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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As Romance, the previous movie, has been a success in terms of profit (287 000 dollars), greedy MGM decided to make Romance II aka Inspiration with the same director Clarence Brown.
As long as people are buying it, why would you bother ?
So in 24 months, Garbo will play in 6 movies !!

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"Temperamentally Garbo is no different today than when she first walked in front of my camera. She is shy and timid, and evidently devoid of false illusions. She is warm and sincere, an actress who believes in her work and strives her utmost to portray a role successfully. She does not merely come on the set to do a day's work. She is a creative personality."
Williams Daniels, Garbo's cinematographer.
(in Greta Garbo-A Cinematic Legacy. Mark Viera)

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The movie is based on a book by Alphonse Daudet titled Sapho.
Don't worry nothing immoral !! Just the story of a notorious courtesan who is kept by many wealthy patrons but whose one real love is a jealous young engineer. You think you've heard it before ?

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"I didn't create a 'Garbo face'. I just did portraits of her i would have done for any star. My lighting of her was determined by the requirements of a scene. I Din't, as some say i did, keep one side of the face light and the other dark. But i always did try to make the camera peer into her eyes, to see what was there."
Williams Daniels, Garbo's cinematographer.
(in Greta Garbo-A Cinematic Legacy. Mark Viera)

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I love this scene where Garbo is posing for a parisian painter.
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It was only 2 years before that Robert Montgomery had appeared uncredited in The Single Standard, his first movie.
And now he is the leading men in a Garbo movie after playing with Norma Shearer or Joan Crawford.

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Now in 1931 Garbo was facing the rivalry of Marlene Dietrich who was marketed as Paramount's answer to Garbo and just succeeded in her first Hollywood movie : Morocco.

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"It is a tale like CAMILLE. Young student falls for woman of the world and is repelled by learning of her past, rejects her, takes her back, rejects her.... you get the picture. Garbo is completely believable as a top Parisian artist's model and completely at home, although bored, with her life at the top of society amidst her artistic friends and their loose morals. Suddenly she is fascinated by this innocent. She finally gives up her life for him and sinks into poverty, only to be rescued by him and set up in a house of her own. Ironically, he intends to marry and keep her on the side - so much for his pure moral ethic of earlier."
Arne Andersen @IMDB

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Inspiration has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in december 1993.

bye bye now...
See you next monday for another Garbo movie : The Painted Veil (1934).
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

Romance (1930) - Clarence Brown

2005-10-17T09:50:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs". I will now keep on focusing on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
I will now capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
Inspiration (1931) - The Painted Veil (1934) - Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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Romance was the 15th Garbo movie in only 5 years !! and her second talkie movie. Finally people have been able to hear her fabulous deep voice, a guttural contralto which reminds me of Kathleen Ferrier.
Her first talkie was one of her greatest movie: Anna Christie.

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Romance is supposed to be the less loved Garbo movie accccording to Barry Paris in his Garbo biography. Nevertheless, it's not that bad but i can't explain why. I guess i have a weak spot for the bishop character played by Gavin Gordon who falls in love with the teasing and really mischievous Garbo. Garbo wanted Gary Cooper for this part but sadly he wasn't available at the time !! He did Morocco instead with Marlene Dietrich.

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"What is love ? made of kisses in the dark, hot breath on the face, a heart that beats with terrible strong blows. Love is just a beast that you feed all through the night. And when the morning comes, love dies."

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"To me love is only a little warmth in all this cold. Just a little light in all this darkness. One little minute enlaced in the beloved's arms. One little minute to forget...And that's all."

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"When will you marry me ? - i never thought the end would come so soon."
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"I accepted it for what it was - nature's work of art ... She was the face and I was the camera. We each tried to get the best out of our equipment."
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In their typical cynicism & madness MGM thought no better than to had her play in another weak and shallow movie named Inspiration the year after. Some have renamed it : Romance II.

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"Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love so Armstrong tells him the story of Rita and himself. Rita was an Opera Star singing in New York who was at a party given by Cornelius. Armstrong was a 28 year old rector. He fell for Rita when he saw her and after six weeks he wanted to marry her. Naive as he was, he thought that all of Rita's "relationships" were in the distant past, but Rita lives for the moment and knows that she can never marry Armstrong."
Tony Fontana @ IMDB

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Romance has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in december 1993.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie : Inspiration .
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

The Single Standard (1929) - John S.Robertson

2005-10-14T10:30:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs". I will now keep on focusing on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
I will now capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
Romance (1930) - Inspiration (1931) - The Painted Veil (1934) - Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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Garbo came back for the first time in Sweden for Christmas 1928. At her return, she confessed to a reporter from the New York Times that she'd like to play Joan of Arc with director Eric Von Stroheim.
You can only dream about that movie that will never see the light, Instead she had Von Stroheim as a co-partner in the delightful though underrated As You Desire Me in 1931.

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Instead MGM has other silly vamp stories for her like The Single Standard.
Directed by John S. Robertson who is remembered because the Byrds named a song after him : Old John Robertson available on the Younger Than Yesterday album & Notorious Byrd Brothers !!
Okay he also made silent movies with Mary Pickford & Lilian Gish.

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This is one of the rare movies where Garbo favourite cinematographer Williams Daniels was replaced by Oliver T. Marsh. He has already worked with John S. Robertson on Annie Laurie (1927).
As you can see, he did a good job.

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Once again as i already wrote if the story is undistinguished, Garbo is still breathtaking !!

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"Why are we mesmerized just watching her on the screen - not just in the emotional or poignant scenes - but doing anything - slowly raising her eyes to look into the camera - glancing to the side in a haughty manner - looking lovingly into her leading man's eyes? Why do we think so highly of some of her movies when we know it is a mediocre story and would no doubt be forgotten had anyone else been in the lead?"
Tim Lussier from the Silents Are Golden website.

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Sadly uncredited for this movie, Wally Albright is the wonderful son of Garbo here. He will later play in the rare fantastic Zoo in Budapest in 1933 with Loretta Young.

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"Garbo had something behind the eyes that you couldn't see until you photographed it in close-up. You could see thought. If she had t look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn't have to change her expression. You could see it in her eyes as she looked from one to the other. And nobody else has been able to do that on the screen."
Clarence Brown interviewed by Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By, University of Berkeley Press, 1968.

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"Garbo's silent films are works of art in a sense. No, she wasn't given the best stories - instead she was given the popular novels of the day - basically soap operas with elegant backgrounds. However, we must be thankful that she was a part of a studio such as MGM where quality was revered and expected. Therefore, although the stories themselves may not be masterpieces, the visual experience alone makes them an aesthetic gratification equal to the viewing of a great painting."
Tim Lussier from the Silents Are Golden website.

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"Greta Garbo plays Arden Stuart, a San Francisco debutante, who falls in love with Packy Cannon (Nils Asther), a fighting sailor who has become an artist. They go off together on a yacht for a good time, but when he leaves to go to Paris, she finds herself an outcast back in San Francisco. She ends up marrying Tommy Hewlett (John Mack Brown), who has always loved her, and they have a child. Of course, Packy returns and when Arden is drawn to him her husband contemplates suicide. Arden has to choose between her family and another romantic escape."
Lawrance M. Bernabo - an Amazon reviewer.

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
The Single Standard has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in june 1991.

bye bye now...
See you next monday for another Garbo movie : Romance (1930).
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

Wild Orchids (1929) - Sidney Franklin

2005-10-10T09:30:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies from the MGM period as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs". I will now keep on focusing on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection. If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
I will now capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
The Single Standard (1929) - Romance (1930) - Inspiration (1931) - The Painted Veil (1934) - Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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I forgot to mention that the director of Wild Orchids was Sydney Franklin. An average Hollywood director. Fortunately for us, Williams Daniels was again the cinematographer on this, hence a lot of beautiful shots.

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It reminds me of the danse scene in Mata-Hari.

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As you see, you can't find One Garbo movie which is not worth watching.
There is always incredible shots coming from who knows where like this one.

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A very unusual scene if you choose the frames like i did to twist the plot otherwise it is just a suit fitting !!

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"What i remember most is Moje (Mauritz Stiller) warning me not to overact. We were taught just to suggest various emotional states...it was the viewer who was to be given the chance to fill it out." Garbo in Conversations with Greta Garbo a book by Sven Broman.

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"It seems that no matter how predictable or absurd a story might be Garbo by her sheer effort and magnetism could make it work."
Simon Davis an Amazon reviewer.

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Mauritz Stiller died during the shooting and Garbo locked herself at home for 2 days. MGM refused her to go back to Sweden. Instead she had to finish the movie with a director she had almost nothing in common.

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"The beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther) while on a trip with her husband, John (Lewis Stone), and the two find themselves impossibly drawn to one another. However, when John begins to suspect his wife of infidelity, his jealousy could have deadly results."
Iotis Erlewine. All Movie Guide.

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Wild Orchids has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in june 1991.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie : The Single Standard.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

A Woman Of Affairs (1929) - Clarence Brown

2005-10-07T09:30:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday in September i have dedicated this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in several frames taken from my personal collection.
Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004 without who i would never have the priviledge to own this collection.
If you're living in the USA, Turner Classic Movies has broadcasted the same retrospective in september 2005 !!
Starting this week, i will capture a new Garbo movie twice a week : every friday & every monday. These are all the MGM Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies that's left for me to capture :
Wild Orchids (1929) - The Single Standard (1929) - Romance (1930) - Inspiration (1931) - The Painted Veil (1934) - Conquest (1937) - Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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A Woman of Affairs is part of the 6 silent movies that Garbo will play after the beginning of the talkies in 1928.
It is the second movie she will do with Clarence Brown. She was only 24 and it was already her seven movie for MGM in nearly 3 years !!

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The movie was based on a novel by Michael Arden : The Green Hat which was supposed to be quite popular at the time according to Barry Paris (Garbo a biography). Garbo saw the play and wanting to play the part of Iris March, a modern woman whose husband killed himself on the wedding night. Everybody supposed that it was because of the bad conduct of his wife. At the end we learned that he was syphilitic and that she ruined her life to protect her husband's reputation.
Don't worry the Hays Office have done everything possible to make this story the most harmless possible and the most boring too !!
But there is Garbo. look at these frames !!

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"How little you know of love ?
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"Garbo multiplied the Cinema's power of suggestion to infinity, and by a gaze so deep that every spectator there found what he sought, she spoke a different language to every man." Ado Kyrou. Amour-Erotisme Au Cinema. 1957.

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The famous scene where Garbo said that "one told me : i'm like that ring,
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"Fortune's a wanton who never stays for long and her favour does not last. She smoothes your hair back from your forehead, kisses you quickly and flits away. But Lady Sorrow takes you in her heavy heart for days and nights on end. She is in no hurry. She sits down by your bed and does her knitting." One of Garbo's favourite poem by Heinrich Heine.
(Sven Broman. Conversations With Greta Garbo)

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"This is the story of a gallant lady-a lady who was perhaps foolish and reckless beyond need-but withal a very gallant lady."
A Woman of Affairs's opening Intertitle.

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"Even when Diana, Neville and David played together as children, Diana knew that she loved Nevs. But Morton, Nevs' father, did not like any Merrick. Since Nevs did not have any money, Morton sent him off to Egypt to work and also talked him out of marrying Diana before he left. Diana waited two years and then married David, who Jeffry thought was the greatest thing since sliced bread. While in Paris, David jumps to his death when the cops come after him and Diana lies about the reason for the sake of Jeffry. Of course Jeffry, who has been a drunk all his life, cuts all ties with Diana. While Nevs still loves Diana, she does not return to England for seven years - just 3 days before Nevs' wedding to Constance."
Tony Fontana @ IMDB

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
A Woman of Affairs has been released on VHS by Warner Studios in february 1991.

bye bye now...
See you next monday for another Garbo movie : Wild Orchids (1929).
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.

Love (1927) - Edmund Goulding - Part 2

2005-10-03T09:30:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday this month i will dedicate this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004.
If you're living in the USA, be thrilled to know that Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting the same great retrospective this very september 2005 !!
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So this is my last 29 frames taken from Love aka Anna Karenina by Edmund Goulding. Yes, i know i didn't respect my rules of 24 frames but this is Greta Garbo and each week it is very difficult to choose those 24 frames, so...
Enjoy the bonus !!

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This is the famous scene in Love where Garbo is caught overacting in a hysterical way which displeases a lot of her fans. But i don't know. Look at those frames, isn't she still astonishing ?

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Brandon Hurst who played her husband Senator Alexei Karenin was Uncle George the same year in of the greatest movie ever made Seventh Heaven by Frank Borzage. I have already dedicated 24 frames to it in July 2005 here.
Brandon Hurst is also considered as one of the five finest villains of the silent screen.

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It is known that the cinematographer Williams Daniels has ordered that the set was open only to the director and the crew to preserve Garbo's shyness during filming (and avoiding the press).

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This is the other famous scene with Philippe De Lacy who at that time has played in more films than Garbo. He was born in Nancy in the middle of World War 1 (1917) and his family was killed by a bombing 2 days after his birth. He was rescued by chance by an american nurse and became a successful child star in the Twenties In Hollywood who will rejected him when he reached his teens.
Sad, isn't it ?

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A few months after Garbo will play in The Divine Woman by great sweden director Victor Sjöström. Unfortunately, the film is lost apart from one reel (9') that TCM broadcast once in a while.

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The story is about a woman who cheats on her husband with a military man; eventually, they run off together. Since the husband's a Senator who wants to avoid a scandal, he banishes her from his home, telling their child (Philippe De Lacy) that his mother is dead. The question is whether the mother's love for the Captain is greater than that for her child. The Captain has chosen the woman over his career, but Karenina promises the Grand Duke that she'll leave her lover if the Duke will restore Vronsky’s good name.
The film has two endings: the American audience ending has the Captain learning of the young Karenina boy having great success in military school some years later, where he visits and discovers that the Senator has died such that it concludes with a loving reunion between he and Anna; the International ending (which is the Tolstoï one) has Anna throwing herself in front of a train in order to keep her promise to the Grand Duke.
Classic Film Guide

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Love has never been available commercially on any support.
Let's hope this will change soon.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie.
Yes, i have decided to continue this tribute and capture all the Garbo movies that are yet to be released on DVD for all of you who don't know them as they are extremely rare to see.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.
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Love (1927) - Edmund Goulding - Part 1

2005-09-30T09:40:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday this month i will dedicate this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004.
If you're living in the USA, be thrilled to know that Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting the same great retrospective this very september 2005 !!

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Love aka Anna Karenina is the second of the movies Garbo played with her partner/boyfriend John Gilbert. The same year they made a huge success with the famous movie newly available on DVD : Flesh And The Devil by Clarence Brown.
But after 3 movies in Hollywood Garbo was beginning to get tired of playing the same vamp that MGM forced her to act. So she refuses to play in Women Love Diamonds By Edmund Goulding which was a flop with Pauline Stark & Owen Moore.
A few months later, she succeeded over MGM, her contract was changed and she was asked to play in Tolstoï's Anna Karenina with Ricardo Cortez, her partner in Torrent. But after 6 weeks of filming, Garbo pretended to feel sick to gain time and finally obtained who she wanted for this movie. The previous director Dimitri Buchowetski was replaced by...Edmund Goulding with who she will play again in 1932 Grand Hotel.
And of course she got John Gilbert, with who she was living a famous romance at the time.

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The year before Gilbert was supposed to marry Garbo but she left the very morning. Everyone knows that Gilbert was deeply in love with her when she wasn't that interested.
When he died of a heart attack in 1936, Garbo did not attend his funeral.

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Years later Garbo has said of him : "It's a friendship. i shall never marry...He's a gentleman, passionate. He uplifts me when i play. It is not an act, i'm living". John Bainbridge. Garbo.1955

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He will end his career at the age of 13. Strangely in 1950 he will resurfaced as the director of The Buster Keaton Show on US TV !!

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"Special scenes were written for him and Garbo was given clear instructions not to upstage him. She therefore held back, permitted him to upstage her and smiled divinely whenever he overacted. Because he overacted most of the time, the audience was consious only of the warmth and beauty of her smile". Robert Payne. The Great Garbo. Coopersquarepress.

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"Garbo had never been more radiant. There are close-ups in the film as incandescent as any that came before or any that came afterward. They owed nothing to the nondescript screenplay and everything to the cameraman, William Daniels, who had fallen in love with her face from the moment he set eyes on it". Robert Payne. The Great Garbo. Coopersquarepress.

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This was the first 29 frames i'll post of this movie.
Next monday you'll see the last 30.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.
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Susan Lennox (1931) - Robert Z.Leonard - Part 2

2005-09-26T09:35:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday this month i will dedicate this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004.
If you're living in the USA, be thrilled to know that Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting the same great retrospective this very september 2005 !!
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So this is my last 27 frames taken from Susan Lennox by Robert Z.Leonard. Yes, i know i didn't respect my rules of 24 frames but this is Greta Garbo and each week it is very difficult to choose those 24 frames, so...
Enjoy the bonus !!

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Another surprising and sexy outfit for Garbo made by her famous costume designer Adrian. Like Garbo, he didn't received one Academy Award (Oscar) despite being considered by most as Hollywood's greatest costume designer. Anyway, Awards don't mean a thing.

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The same year, John Miljan played another small part in previous Garbo's movie "Inspiration". He also played one last one in a Garbo movie in Grand Hotel the year after. But he was uncredited.
Some haven't got the luck !!

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"Life could be wonderful - if we only knew what to do with it".
Garbo. December 1940 a letter to Hörke.

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This scene anticipates the great shots from the famous Musical Comedy The Great Ziegfeld for which Robert Z.Leonard won an Academy Award in 1937.

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Garbo said to a friend of hers who asked her if she wasn't happy in this movie :
"Happy, who is happy ? nobody can be happy acting in Cinema."
Quoted by Barry Paris in : Garbo, A Biography. Knopf, 1995.

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"Susan, a young Swedish-American woman, is forced into an arranged marriage with a man she despises. Running away from home to avoid the union, she ends up in the arms of Rodney, an engineer. The two consummate their genuine love, but through an unfortunate set of circumstances. Susan engages a brief dalliance with a carnival owner. When Rodney finds out about the affair, he banishes Susan from his life -- but not his heart. Unable to cope with his sorrow and disappointment, Rodney gives up engineering and become a drunken vagabond. Susan goes on to lead a profitable existence as the consort of wealthy men. But her love for Rodney remains undimmed. Over the course of many years and through many changes in fortune, Susan pursues Rodney across the globe, determined to win his forgiveness."
Mooviees.com

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
Susan Lennox has been made available by Warner Home Video on VHS in 1990.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.
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Susan Lennox (1931) - Robert Z.Leonard - Part 1

2005-09-23T09:30:00.000+02:00

As You Desire Me (1932) - Georges Fitzmaurice - Part2

2005-09-19T10:40:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday this month i will dedicate this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004.
If you're living in the USA, be thrilled to know that Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting the same great retrospective this very september 2005 !!
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So this is my last 21 frames taken from As You Desire Me directed by George Fitzmaurice. Yes, i know i didn't respect my rules of 24 frames but this is Greta Garbo and each week it is very difficult to choose those 24 frames, so...
Enjoy the bonus !!

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This is one of the most underrated Garbo movie and i can't see why.
Of course it's poorly filmed but there is good moments notably the Cigarette scene. The script has been written too quickly so it lacks real depth to the characters but the plot is interesting.

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"Garbo had announced that As You Desire Me would be her final picture, and appeared to be making good on her promise when she boarded a ship for Europe shortly after filming wrapped." Paul Tatara - TCM in this month schedule.
She left Hollywood to Europe for 8 months after this movie, only to return to her conditions and to be the Queen Christina to Eternity...
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"Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. A strange man(Tony)shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno. Maria, Tony claims, had her memory destroyed during a World War I invasion 10 years ago. 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 that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth." Gary Jackson. IMDB.

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These frames are taken from a Broadcast on TCMFrance in october 2004.
As you Desire Me has been made available by Turner Home Video on VHS in 1990.

bye bye now...
See you next friday for another Garbo movie.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.
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You can also find my captures of The Kiss on the german Garbo site : Hommage an die Göttliche!. Thank you Dirk.

As You Desire Me (1932) - Georges Fitzmaurice - Part1

2005-09-16T09:30:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 18th 2005, every friday this month i will dedicate this blog to one of her Yet-To-Be Released-On-DVD movies. As i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second which is dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs", i will focus on one of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection. Before we begin, i want to thank TCMFrance for their nearly complete Garbo Retrospective in october 2004.
If you're living in the USA, be thrilled to know that Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting the same great retrospective this very september 2005 !!

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Robert Payne wrote in his book "The Great Garbo" (CooperSquarePress.1976) :
"Garbo has finally achieved the impossible. She is no longer beautiful. Instead, she is pasty-faced, a wooden stick wearing a white wig." Can you believe this when it's obvious Garbo have rarely been so beautiful and so modern (think some pale Gothic icon) with this Platinum Blonde Hair look ? But Garbo fans apparently disagree on this.
And she is really funny in this drunk-clown scene !! (Picture 7).

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Sadly it is one of the top ten "lost films" of the American Film Institute.

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One could only fantasize what could have been a movie with Garbo and directed by a real Master of Cinema like Eric Von Stroheim !!
Because it is a fact that most of Garbo Directors weren't up to her stature and that's a sad invaluable loss.

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This was the first 22 frames i'll post of this movie.
Next monday you'll see the last 21.
In the meantime, any comments will be appreciated.
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The Kiss (1929) - Jacques Feyder - Part 2

2005-09-12T09:30:00.000+02:00

The Kiss (1929) - Jacques Feyder - Part 1

2005-09-09T09:35:00.000+02:00

Torrent (1926) - Monta Bell - part2

2005-09-05T09:25:00.000+02:00

Torrent (1926) - Monta Bell - part1

2005-09-02T09:30:00.000+02:00

Greta Garbo Centennial Tribute

2005-08-22T11:44:00.000+02:00

To celebrate Greta Garbo's 100th birthday in September 2005, i think it should be appropriate to dedicate a few blog pages to 4 of her movies that are yet to be released on DVD for reasons i can't understand. Both silent & talkies.
Those movies won't be released in September neither in the Garbo Signature Collection nor in the TCM Archives - The Garbo Silents.
So that's 11 of Garbo movies waiting in the sad DVD purgatory !!
Can you believe it ?

Every friday in next September, i will focus on 1 of her movies in 24 frames taken from my personal collection as i do in my other blog named : 24 Lies Per Second dedicated to "screen captures of old rare movies from vhs".

Garbo still lives.

Come back on Friday September 2nd 2005 as this page is still under construction.