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Tasting a bit of well-earned leisure in the Lowe's State loges last Saturday night, we had a brain-storm that carried across a couple of centuries, from the elite sectors of Manhattan to the 18th Century hot spots along the Left Bank. Greta Garbo, "La Dame aux Camelias", simplified for the American people into just plain "Camille...
...great Garbos' annual offering combines all the necessary ingredients of great romance in the accepted nineteenth century fashion, even to the heroine passing away in here lover's arms, and, with excellent direction and casting, meets every conceiveable test of modern preferences. Greta reaches the heights as the charming consumptive, Marguerite Gautler. Her seductive shoulders are bared frequently with the desired effect, and the delicately ethereal effect of her appearance in the last scene is nothing short of great acting. Opposite her is Robert Taylor as handsome Armand Duval is convincing in the most tortuous windings of their love affair...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...
...Council of State King Gustaf of Sweden decorated Cinemactress Greta Garbo with the nation's gold medal litteris et artibus, highest Swedish award for artistic achievement...
...women and better actresses in Hollywood than Marlene Dietrich. But no other embodies so perfectly that elusive combination of qualities-variously defined as glamour, personality or, even, color-which added to less subtle requisites makes a beautiful actress a Star. Marlene Dietrich is not so good a tragedienne as Greta Garbo. She is inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary...