Word: garbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch" the German slang for junk, which Lehmann uses to describe everything which is artistically second-rate...
...vehicle for Greta Garbo's statuesque soul-struggles "The Painted Vell" is effective, but as film drama it's rather slow about getting things done and rather naively melodramatic. The Cambridge sophisticates should get quite a bit of fun laughing at the serious sequences, of which there are one or two really priceless ones. Garbo is her usual self--some seem to like it but this corner is still convinced that the only interesting thing about her is her popularity an apparent triumph of publicity department machinations. Robert Marshal continues to be the capable English...
...aviator and his girl, which solves the question of her own future home. Shirley Temple handles all these opportunities with such childish grace and adult talent that when she returns to her old specialty in a song called "On the Good Ship Lollipop," it is almost as if Greta Garbo were suddenly to break into "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Good shot : Shirley's mean playmate, brilliantly impersonated by 8-year-old Jane Withers, showing her the game of trainwreck. The Band Plays On (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Copiously seasoned with false sentiment and meretricious heroism, this dish of college, football...
...existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look...
...first picture since Queen Christina, Greta Garbo gives a triumphant performance. As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine. Richard Boleslavski's direction is slow but sure; the picture gathers power steadily toward the finish. Its only thoroughly weak spot is a Chinese festival staged by Chester Hale to lend "production value"-a sequence which looks as if it had just finished an engagement at the Winter Garden. Good shot: Greta Garbo at dinner wondering how much her husband knows...