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...seems particularly fitting that Ingmar Bergman should have been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important...
Verdi's 1853 musical adaptation of a play by Alexandre Dumas is the first of many works based on the timeless story of the two star-crossed lovers, the most well-known of which is the film version "Camille" with Greta Garbo. The story's adaptability to the opera stage, the ballet stage, and even the silver screen is remarkable, and perhaps is owed to the simplicity of the heroine's tragic plight. Called Violetta in Verdi's opera, she is a consumptive courtesan in the decadent world of mid-19th century Paris, older and more worldly than her counterpart...
...profile of Greta Garbo in February's Vanity Fair, which focused mainly on the years of her reclusion in a New York penthouse, revealed among other things that the withered beauty kept a dozen Russ Tolls under her divan, which she arranged daily in various tableaux. Apparently, she just wanted to be left alone...with her trolls...
Premiering in New York's Capitol Theater on January 22, 1937, the movie immediately met with critical praise, and Garbo won the the New York Film Critics Award for Best Female Performance. For once, the critics recognized talent when they saw it. Garbo's masterful performance remains a triumph...
...quite remember much about it except that it was pretty funny. A classic. Greta Garbo was nominated for a 1939 Academy Award for her performance. We think it might even be the film where she groaned, "I want to be alone...