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...fever steadily gained momentum. Warner Bros, was planning its new version of the Garbo classic about Sweden's 17th century Queen Christina, who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism and abdicated to spend the rest of her life in Rome. The studio had been thinking of Vanessa Redgrave for the title role, with its demands for classical style and impassioned nobility. But no-who better than Liv Ullmann...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. Wednesday-Saturday Anna Karenina (Garbo) 4, 7:45, 11:30. Philadelphia Story (Hepburn), 5:40, 9:30. Sunday-Tuesday Morocco (Dietrich...
...often as not, the New Woman was a masculine fantasy-Greta Garbo as a Soviet virago, titillatingly mannish yet secretly craving French perfume and Melvyn Douglas. Such, at least, was popular mythology-women, even in their supposed emancipation, have often been, as it were, prisoners of the male imagination. Always there was the secret, insistent vibration of sex: rebellion ends when Rhett Butler kicks down the door...
...write an official report about the remarkable success British intelligence enjoyed turning around German spies in England and deploying them as double agents. Yale University Press has simply reprinted this surprisingly readable document (The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945) on the coded doings of Garbo, Tricycle and the rest, and bargain-priced the instant book...
MUCH to the consternation of their pressagents, many younger performers have made reticence about their personal lives a cardinal credo. One devout follower of the Garbo tenet is Flip Wilson, the subject of this week's cover story. When he first approached the comedian, Roland Flamini, our West Coast show business correspondent, "wondered if I'd even be able to snatch some conversation in the men's room." But Wilson slowly opened up to Flamini, particularly after the two were mobbed by a bunch of elderly women fans outside NBC's studios in Burbank. "Sharing...