Wednesday, April 11, 2018

NEW FROM EFSP: GRETA GARBO AS ANNA CHRISTIE

Another great Garbo post from our friends at European Film Star Postcards--Greta Garbo in Anna Christie (1930)

Could Greta Garbo talk on film? She was part of the Golden Age of the silent cinema of the 1920s, but MGM bosses doubted in 1929 if she with her Swedish accent could survive the talkies. In her first sound film, Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930), her very first line was "Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby!"For everybody it was immediately clear that her transition to the sound era would be glorious. There were two alternate language versions of the film....READ AND SEE MUCH MORE HERE

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY...SILENT GARBO! Click on the link https://bit.ly/2Hf00dk

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