Word: gosta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legend of Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...
Divorced. For the fourth time, "Peggy Hopkins Joyce" (Margaret Upton), famed successive wife of Everett Archer (Denver), Sherbourne Hopkins Jr. (Washington), J. Stanley Joyce (Chicago), and Count Gosta Morner (Stockholm and Manhattan); from Count Morner, at Paris, secretly...
Sued for Separation. Gosta Morner, 26, Swedish Count, President of a toothpaste plant in Chicago, by Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 30, on grounds of nonsupport. Morner denied the charge, asserted that she married him for his title. Said she: "I didn't give a damn for his title. If I wanted one, I could have been a princess or something...