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Elusive Greta Garbo was still battling it out with photographers. Arriving...
...Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...
...made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made...
...Garbo had picked not only the location but the story, one of her favorites, Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais. Set in the milieu of a decadent French nobility, it was a passion-tossed tale of a tragic love that would cast Garbo as a worldly duchess who finally takes a nun's vows and dies at 29. Scripter Sally Benson had made the adaptation; Wanger was trying to wangle British Cinemactor James Mason into the male lead as a steel-willed marquis...
...glory, Garbo had joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...