Plot
Bio-Pic of The Great One!, GRETA GARBO, and her on-again / off-again relationships with stars of her era, such as MARLENE DIETRICH. A narrow focus on the greatest actress in the history of film, the woman behind the camera, revealing who she was - a person before her time, living a life dedicated to personal freedom and independence to the confusion of all concerned. An emotionally complicated, individualistic, and self-contained personality is re-vealed through Greta's personal triangle with screenwriter Mercedes DE Acosta and VOGUE photographer/designer Cecil Beaton.
Keywords: based-on-legend, bisexuality, film-actress, film-break, film-business, film-star, film-studio, filmmaker, filmmaking, filmography
Tina Fey: Maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. And let me say something about that: Yeah, she is. Yeah. And so am I and so is this one. [Points to Amy Poehler]::Amy Poehler: Yeah, deal with it.::Tina Fey: You know what? Bitches get stuff done. That's why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams and they sleep on cots and they're allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year, you hated those bitches, but you knew the capital of Vermont.::Amy Poehler: Yes.::Tina Fey: So, I'm saying it's not too late, Texas and Ohio! Get on board. Bitch is the new black!
[Alec Baldwin as The Cowboy enters the diner]::Brenda: Man! His type just makes me crazy! Shoot! Look at him - sitting on that stool like he's doing it a favor!
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Helen, a writer, and Madeline, an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen's fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown, Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline. Both rivals have secretly drunk a miracle cure for aging; they accidentally discover, when each tries to eliminate the other, that they have become immortal and that "life" will never be the same again.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, abortion, actress, afterlife, alcoholic, author, betrayal
Some people will go to any lengths to stay young forever. But Madeline Ashton and her old friend Helen Sharp are about to go TOO far.
Your basic black comedy.
In one small bottle... The fountain of youth. The secret of eternal life. The power of an ancient potion. Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't.
Madeleine: Tell me, doctor. Do you think I'm starting to need you?
[Helen has a gaping hole in her abdomen]::Madeline Ashton: You're a fraud, Helen! You're a walking lie and I can see right through you.
Helen: Oh ok! Well if she's not dead, you tell her to come down here, come right up to me and kiss me on the...::Madeline: Kiss you on the what?::Helen: Mad?::Madeline: Hel...
Ernest Menville: [at Helen's book party] Have you seen her yet?::Madeline: What a joke. She's not even here.::Ernest Menville: Wait. Look over there.::Madeline: [a heavy-set woman stands surrounded by people] Oh! Looks as though she's lost a few pou- [the heavy set lady moves out of the way to reveal the incredibly thin Helen Sharp]
[Helen pours alcohol all over Madeline's car and then dumps the bottles inside, revealing dozens of bottles and alcohol everywhere]::Helen: We'll make it look like she's had just a little bit too much to drink...
[after being shot into a pond, by Madeline]::Helen: That was totally uncalled for.
[Lisle has just stabbed Ernest's finger with the dagger]::Ernest Menville: Ah! Wha-what are you doing?::Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm loving you.
[after seeing her transformation]::Madeline Ashton: I'm a girl!
[after seeing Mad]::Helen Sharp: It's alive!::[Cut line]::Helen Sharp: And it's beautiful...
Madeline Ashton: Oh, for Christ's sake, at least lie quickly!::Dakota: I'm trying to!
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A tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars, including (in order) 'Cary Grant', 'Greta Garbo' (qv) 'Edward G. Robinson' and 'Ann Sheridan' (qv), 'Johnny Weissmuller' (qv), 'James Cagney' (qv), 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) and 'George Raft' (qv), 'Harpo Marx' (qv), 'Clark Gable', 'Bing Crosby' (qv), 'Leopold Stokowski' (qv), 'James Stewart (I)' (qv) and 'Dorothy Lamour' (qv), 'Tyrone Power (I)' and 'Sonja Henie' (qv), The Frankenstein Monster, 'Larry Fine (I)' (qv), 'Moe Howard (I)' (qv), 'Curly Howard' (qv), 'Oliver Hardy' (qv), 'Cesar Romero (I)' (qv), 'Mickey Rooney (I)' (qv), 'Judy Garland (I)' and 'Lewis Stone (I)' (qv), 'Kay Kyser' (qv), 'Peter Lorre (I)' (qv), 'Henry Fonda' (qv), 'J. Edgar Hoover' (qv), 'Ned Sparks (I)' (qv), 'Jerry Colonna' (qv), and 'Groucho Marx' (qv); many more just get sight gags, such as 'Claudette Colbert', 'Norma Shearer' (qv), 'William Powell (I)' (qv), 'Don Ameche' (qv), 'Wallace Beery' (qv), 'C. Aubrey Smith' (qv), 'Boris Karloff' (qv), 'Arthur Treacher' (qv), 'Buster Keaton' (qv) and 'Mischa Auer' (qv).
Keywords: celebrity, celebrity-caricature, conga, dancing, fan-dancer, horse, hotfoot, merrie-melodies, nightclub, reference-to-jerry-colonna
J Edgar Hoover: Gee, Gee, Gee, Gee!
Plot
Autograph hound Donald, despite the security guard, manages to get signatures from 'Greta Garbo' (qv), 'Mickey Rooney', 'Sonja Henie' (qv), The Ritz Brothers, and 'Shirley Temple' (qv) before he's recognized and everyone wants his autograph.
Keywords: 1930s, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, celebrity-caricature, obsessed-fan, reference-to-the-marx-brothers, revolving-door
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Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
Keywords: 1930s, animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, blackface, cartoon-duck, celebrity, celebrity-caricature, character-name-in-title, chef
Katharine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep: I'm Little Bo Peep. I've lost my sheep, really I have. I can't find them anywhere, really, I can't. I think so, don't you? I do. They were such lovely sheep, really they were.
Hugh Herbert as Old King Cole: My bowl, my bowl! Oh, yes, of course. Y-yes, my bowl.::Joe Penner: You wanna buy a duck? Hee-hyuk, hee-hyuk, hee-hyuk!::Donald Duck: [in bowl] You wanna buy a duck? Ha, ha, ha, ha!::Hugh Herbert as Old King Cole: Hoo-hoo! [Closes lid]::Donald Duck: Hey, what's the big idea? Let me outta here!
W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty: Ah, yes, my little chickadee. Let me inspect your tiny brood. Uh, so it's you.::Charlie McCarthy: Ha, ha, ha. Lovely day, lovely day. What a beautiful sunrise. Or is that your nose?::W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty: Why, you... Lucifer. I'll show you...::Charlie McCarthy: Now don't get hard-boiled, or I'll sic an egg beater on you.::W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty: I'll mow you down! [Loses balance] Look out below. [Falls head first on a mushroom]::Charlie McCarthy: Bottoms up, Mr. Egg. Bottoms up.
[in See-Saw, Margery Daw, Edward G. Robinson and Greta Garbo are on a see-saw]::Greta Garbo: I vant so much to be alone.::Edward G. Robinson: Okay, babe. You asked for it. [Gets off see-saw, Garbo falls down]
Charles Laughton: It's mutiny!... but I love it.
[in "Simple Simon", Oliver Hardy as the pieman throws a pie at Stan Laurel as Simple Simon, but misses; the pie goes flying past]::Katharine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep: I've lost my sheep. [the pie hits her in the face, covering her face black]::Katharine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep: [imitating an African-American woman] Is any o' you old folks seen my sheep anywhere?
Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of her films were sensational hits, and all but three of her twenty-four Hollywood films were profitable. Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.
Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star.