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...might not be any better if Lamour spoke. He is more wooden than the Cross. He seems to have been cast because his expressionless features have the same effect Garbo's masklike face did at the end of Queen Christina; audiences saw complex emotions playing across her features while she was thinking, she said, of "nothing at all." This show is unlikely to lure back the lapsed, let alone convert the condemned. The faithful can impose their own meaning on Lamour's blank canvas...
...Greta Garbo to Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka...
...story has it that, upon seeing the Beast turn into the affable, if somewhat bland, prince (played again by Marais), Greta Garbo exclaimed, "Give me back my Beast!" It is true that the wholesome prince is no compensation for the loss of the Beast, and Marais looks diminished without the leonine make-up and trailing cloak. Fortunately, this section of the film doesn't last too long...
...without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman, Celeste Holm, Liv Ullmann), they can't shake the mothballs from it. "Isn't it terrible?" said Greta Garbo, who toiled nobly in a 1930 film version. "Who ever saw Swedes act like that...
...most striking displays of Warhol's work is 10 images of popular characters from a 1981 portfolio entitled Myths. On one wall hang pictures of Mickey Mouse, Howdy Doody, Santa Claus, Greta Garbo, Dracula, Superman, Uncle Sam, the Wicked Witch of the West, Mammy and a self portrait called The Shadow. With this series, Warhol has drawn attention to Hollywood's ability to create icons that the entire country recognizes...