Greta Garbo News

I enjoyed "South Pacific" and found Jesse Hamlin's article right on . I wasn't disappointed in a thing - except all the empty seats.

In the 1932 movie "Grand Hotel," actress Greta Garbo famously said, "I want to be alone." The line became identified with the aloof superstar.

The first surprise is Doris Roberts' voice. It is deep and husky, more Greta Garbo than Lucy of "I Love Lucy." Which is to say, Roberts, 77, sounds nothing like the high-pitched, nagging mother, Marie Barone, she played on the popular TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond" for almost a decade.

The prospect of a mocking 'Camille' might lead you to expect shades of Greta Garbo, but it's Judy Garland's spirit that dominates the raunchy, bittersweet show now vamping at the Clark Street Playhouse.

This 'Camille: A Tearjerker' is Charles Ludlam's 1973 drag travesty of the Dumas fils classic, and director Christopher Henley adds an updated dance club vibe and major lip-syncing interludes in the Washington Shakespeare Company's lovingly irreverent production. When the characters hit peaks of emotional distress, they mouth the words as great recordings of torch standards ('Stormy Weather,' 'What Now My Love') fill the room.

Liev Schreiber as Vilma in "Taking Woodstock" So I'm watching Taking Woodstock , Ang Lee's charmer about Elliot Tiber , who inadvertently made the storied Festival happen, and in walks Vilma, a musclebound blonde in a candy-pink dress, resembling Mamie Van Doren with stubble.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

The Bolter -- The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless IDINA SACKVILLE, descendant of one of England's oldest families, who went off to KENYA in search of adventure and became known as the high priestess of the scandalous "HAPPY VALLEY SET" by Frances Osborne, Knopf '08, $30, 300 pages, ISBN #0307270149. Index, select bibliography, source notes, ...

Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in 'Ninotchka' , playing at Lighthouse International's Academy Theater on Monday.

WITH HIS EARLY fame, radiant good looks and precipitous retreat from the spotlight, Scott Walker could be described as the Greta Garbo of pop music.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen Ernst Lubitsch's "Ninotchka," starring Greta Garbo, on Monday July 13 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills as part of its "Hollywood's Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939" series.

Idina Sackville, who Greta Garbo portrayed in the film "A Woman Of Affairs," is now the subject of her great-granddaughter's biography, in which Osborne tries to solve a mystery: What, in 1919, made Sackville abandon her husband and two young sons and take off for Kenya, where she married four more times and scandalized one of the oldest families ...

Great women in silent cinema — including Greta Garbo and Lillian Gish — are showcased in the Paramount Theatre's Silent Movie Mondays series, beginning June 8. Films on the lineup include: "Flesh and the Devil," June 8; "Romola," June 15; "The Godless Girl," June 22; "Seventh Heaven," June 29.

Auction for stamp of smoking Hepburn BERLIN - A collector stands to make a tidy profit after discovering a rare stamp portraying movie star Audrey Hepburn smoking - one of a series that should have been incinerated by the German government.

'Ninotchka,' starring Greta Garbo as a cold-hearted Bolshevik on a mission to Paris, is coming to the Ohmann Theatre Thursday, May 14.

A crudely bound old volume, containing many items of interest to the people of this section, has just been unearthed in the attic of the old Washington Hotel here, by Mr.

It doesn't hurt to fantasize on occasion. That's probably why so many glamorous movies with opulent sets and clothing are often made when times are hard.

The studio's been slowly rolling out about 100 vintage films a year over the last 12 years.

As Bogie once announced to Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca," "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He wasn't talking about the new Warner Archive Collection, the first-ever DVD on demand service introduced by a major U.S. studio, but for film buffs, he might as well have been.