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...life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life. Said he: "That private life stuff is all right for a Garbo, but you're no Garbo. You're an average American girl...
...women pants-purchasers are not just the perfect 36s, but 40s, even 42s. Unbelieving manufacturers, who heretofore had made slacks mainly in Garbo and Hepburn sizes, were caught short by unprecedented orders for large sizes...
...courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...
...main points of wonderment in "Two-Faced Woman" are how the director can keep the old mistaken identity theme from falling apart on the screen and how Garbo can do the same for her person after lo, these many years. Unfortunately, their attempts are not successful enough to make this much-publicized comedy so diverting as its original version...
...have left is Garbo, trying hard to be sexy. She may have her points as an actress, but certainly not her curves, so as a naughty bedroom comedy the film just doesn't click...