Greta Garbo
Sep. 7th, 2005 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am back on the classic kick...
Am going to rewatch all the Garbo movies I have.
My Top 10 list:
1. Camille: Garbo plays a doomed 19th century Courtesan who falls in love with a naive young man played by the gorgeous Robert Taylor. Moulin Rouge stole the plot. Tragic, romantic, period, rather on the dysfunctional angsty romance side, plus, damn, but Robert Taylor was HOT.
2. Ninotchka: advertised as "Garbo Laughs," this is a hilarious and sophisticated and romantic comedy about a Russian Commissar who comes to Paris to sell some revolutionary jewels and falls for the Parisian lifestyle and a Parisian aristocrat (played charmingly by Melvyn Douglas).
3. The Flesh and the Devil: the uber-famous silent where Garbo plays a temptress locked in a complex and sinful and uber-hot affair with real-life lover John Gilbert. Their chemistry is scorching and the movie is beautiful.
4. Grand Hotel: Garbo is a suicidal ballerina in this all-star but depressing tale of lost souls in a Berlin hotel. This flick won best picture.
5. As You Desire Me: This one isn't as well known as the above four, but I like it a lot. A man who lost his gentle aristocratic wife in the chaos of WWI comes across a drunken kept woman he believes is she. Whether it's so or not, she is slowly won over by his gentleness. Then...
6. Love: Silent version of Anna Karenina. Happy ending :) Who cares. Gilbert and Garbo burn up the creen (the movie was renamed just so the ads could run "Garbo and Gilbert in love."
7. Queen Christina: Garbo is the titutlar queen with a strong will and a doomed romance (with John Gilbert). It's quite an iconic movie, especially the scene where she "memorizes" the room they've just made love in.
8. Mata Hari: pure cheese but the angst is totally fun. Plus, I have a weakness the size of China for Ramon Novarro who plays a Russian with a thick Spanish accent!
9. Conquest: Garbo and Charles Boyer in this interesting look at a Polish countess who was involved with Napoleon.
10. Inspiration: yet again, Garbo is a doomed woman in love with someone she shouldn't be. Fun melodrama.
Am going to rewatch all the Garbo movies I have.
My Top 10 list:
1. Camille: Garbo plays a doomed 19th century Courtesan who falls in love with a naive young man played by the gorgeous Robert Taylor. Moulin Rouge stole the plot. Tragic, romantic, period, rather on the dysfunctional angsty romance side, plus, damn, but Robert Taylor was HOT.
2. Ninotchka: advertised as "Garbo Laughs," this is a hilarious and sophisticated and romantic comedy about a Russian Commissar who comes to Paris to sell some revolutionary jewels and falls for the Parisian lifestyle and a Parisian aristocrat (played charmingly by Melvyn Douglas).
3. The Flesh and the Devil: the uber-famous silent where Garbo plays a temptress locked in a complex and sinful and uber-hot affair with real-life lover John Gilbert. Their chemistry is scorching and the movie is beautiful.
4. Grand Hotel: Garbo is a suicidal ballerina in this all-star but depressing tale of lost souls in a Berlin hotel. This flick won best picture.
5. As You Desire Me: This one isn't as well known as the above four, but I like it a lot. A man who lost his gentle aristocratic wife in the chaos of WWI comes across a drunken kept woman he believes is she. Whether it's so or not, she is slowly won over by his gentleness. Then...
6. Love: Silent version of Anna Karenina. Happy ending :) Who cares. Gilbert and Garbo burn up the creen (the movie was renamed just so the ads could run "Garbo and Gilbert in love."
7. Queen Christina: Garbo is the titutlar queen with a strong will and a doomed romance (with John Gilbert). It's quite an iconic movie, especially the scene where she "memorizes" the room they've just made love in.
8. Mata Hari: pure cheese but the angst is totally fun. Plus, I have a weakness the size of China for Ramon Novarro who plays a Russian with a thick Spanish accent!
9. Conquest: Garbo and Charles Boyer in this interesting look at a Polish countess who was involved with Napoleon.
10. Inspiration: yet again, Garbo is a doomed woman in love with someone she shouldn't be. Fun melodrama.
