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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.
Actors: Brandon Young (editor), Danny Chadwick (producer), Brandon Young (producer), Danny Chadwick (writer), Brandon Young (writer), Brandon Young (director), Justin Beecher (actor), Justin Beecher (producer), Gregory Andersen (composer), Joylynne Chrislan (producer), Joylynne Chrislan (actress), Joylynne Chrislan (writer), Marty Lynn Hicks (producer), Ashley Campbell (actress), Matt Seaton (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Short,Actors: Buddy Bregman (writer), Buddy Bregman (director), Buddy Bregman (producer), Tina Pavlides (producer), Drea Castro (actress), Julia Melim (actress), Gem Silver (actress), Kathrin Smirke (actress), Steve Sirkis (actor), Anna-Karin Eskilsson (actress), Soraya Garré (actress), Bob Barrett (composer), Jocelyn Osorio (actress), Roger Lowe (producer), Josefine Gerner Petersen (actress),
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, filmographyActors: Fred Armisen (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Charles Barkley (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Chevy Chase (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Snoop Dogg (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Chris Farley (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Alan Silvestri (composer), David Koepp (writer), Bruce Willis (actor), Meryl Streep (actress), Isabella Rossellini (actress), Robert Zemeckis (producer), Kenneth Hughes (actor), John Ingle (actor), Clement von Franckenstein (actor), Jonathan Silverman (actor), Goldie Hawn (actress), Sydney Pollack (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Jennifer Darling (miscellaneous crew), Robert Zemeckis (director),
Plot: 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, betrayalActors: Nils Poppe (writer), Nils Poppe (miscellaneous crew), Nils Poppe (actor), Ernst Bach (writer), Franz Arnold (writer), Britta Billsten (actress), Alexandra Zetterberg (actress), Bo Lindström (actor), Albert Gaubier (miscellaneous crew), Ingvar Ernblad (producer), Hans-Peter Edh (actor), Olof Lundström Orloff (actor), Mia Poppe (actress), Berit Carlberg (actress), Eva Jansson (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: ,Actors: Treg Brown (editor), Kent Rogers (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Tex Avery (director), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Kent Rogers (actor), Kent Rogers (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor),
Plot: 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-colonnaActors: Jack King (director), Clarence Nash (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Walt Disney (producer), Billy Bletcher (actor), Oliver Wallace (composer), Harry Reeves (writer),
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-doorActors: Wilfred Jackson (director), Clarence Nash (actor), Walt Disney (producer), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor),
Plot: 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, chefActors: James Conaty (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Wally Albright (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), William B. Davidson (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Harry Hughes (director), Donald Calthrop (actor), Mickey Brantford (actor), William Freshman (actor), Mabel Poulton (actress), Vanda Gréville (actress), Herbert Thompson (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,