GARBO NEWS

December 24, 2009

Advent calendar 2009

Click on the picture of the day !

December 23, 2009

Barry Paris’ Garbo: A Biography [Audio Edition - MP3] out!

Available via Amazon now.

Author: Barry Paris
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
More info: 20 hours and 24 minutes

Get it  HERE!

December 14, 2009

New Grand Hotel DVD-Book in Brazil

Coleção Folha Clássicos do Cinema issued a very special Grande Hotel DVD this year. It was packed in a 64-page booklet. Release date is unknown.

 

Get it  HERE!

November 30, 2009

Greta Garbo Came To Donegal

A new play is on in London about a visit of Garbo in Ireland. It will open in January 2010. It will be directed by Frank McGuinness's and American actress Caroline Lagerfelt will play Garbo.

Caroline Lagerfelt

Thanks to Patrick

November 12, 2009

NM Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009 – Greta Garbo

‘Greta Garbo dress’ from the new Fall/Winter 2009 collection from NM Haute Couture.

More Details  HERE!

November 10, 2009

Garbo – The Feature Film is a bluff!

Buddy Bregman started production of the Garbo bio-pic in 2008. In early 2009 we heard that Björn Höglund would be one the executive producer with Anna-Karin Eskilsson as GG.

Anna-Karin Eskilsson as GG,  Photo copyrighted by: Samsung

Now Högland was arrested by Police in Los Angeles. Authorities took Björn Höglund into custody following a raid on the home of Swedish actress Anna-Karin Eskilsson, who was going to play the lead in this biopic about Garbo, according to the Realtid.se news website.

When police discovered Höglund hiding in Eskilsson’s apartment, the businessman first tried to elude capture by escaping in a car, leading police on a wild car chase through the streets of Hollywood before they finally arrested him on Friday afternoon. On Sunday, the actress Eskilsson was tightlipped about her role in the dramatic arrest of one of Sweden’s most-wanted white-collar criminals.

According this Swedish article, maybe there is a fraud behind this film. Derek Reisfield said, via email, that nobody has contacted him and he is not involved in this production.

Read all  HERE  and  HERE!

November 1, 2009

New book on GG and Dietrich

Greta Garbo Y Marlene Dietrich - Safo Va A Hollywood (Spain). Not really new, but it is the Spanish version from the 2001 released book: The Girls. Sappho Goes To Hollywood (USA 2001) by D. McLellan.

Get it  HERE!

Oktober 23, 2009

Luise Rainer on Garbo: “After Nefertiti she was the most beautiful creature in the world.”

Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910) is a retired German-born Austrian and American film actress. As she approaches her 100th birthday in 2009, the two-time Oscar winner talks to Mick Brown for The Telegraph about Hollywood and even Garbo.

Writer Mick Brown wrote that Photographs of Luise Rainer as a Hollywood star show a gamin beauty, with soulful eyes and rosebud lips. Rainer then told him that she was nobody to make a pass to and that she was very thin, like a boy, and very un-sexy. Then she she was speaking of Greta Garbo.

LR: “She was so beauuuuutiful...”

MB: “You knew Garbo?"

LR: “Not very intimately, but yes. I always thought that after Nefertiti she was the most beautiful creature in the world.”

It was Garbo, indirectly, who was responsible for her coming to Hollywood. Born in Dusseldorf, the daughter of a businessman, Rainer was a protegé of the great Max Rheinhart, and already a celebrated stage and screen actress in Germany, when she was spotted by a talent scout from MGM, who informed Louis B Mayer that he had found: THE NEXT GARBO

Read the full text  HERE!

Thanks to Patrick

Oktober 10, 2009

Marina Cicogna's Garbo snapshots

Oktober 1, 2009

New on Youtube

Thanks to Rolf

Oktober 1, 2009

Introducing: CaroleLombard.org

Its fab. Please check out!
It's a website dedicated to preserving, promoting and protecting the legacy of Carole Lombard.

Go  HERE!

Thanks to Carla

September 16, 2009

Genthe Photo at a Sotheby’s Auction in Paris

Just like to notify fans of a unique photo of Greta by  Arnold Genthe. This is available at a Sotheby's auction in Paris 23 Sept.

Description:

Tirage argentique d'époque. Annoté Garbo - It was not easy for Greta Garbo to secure a Hollywood contract - this is one of a series of pictures Genthe made - which convinced movie directors of her great mobility of expression - au crayon d'une main inconnue. Monté sous passe-partout et encadré.

Thanks to Martin

More Details  HERE!

September 13, 2009

Cecil Beaton Fabric Collection

In some days there will bet he second launching of the celebrated Cecil Beaton Fabric Collection at the London Design Festival on 25th September and among the exciting new designs is 'Garbo's Eye' a surrealist design using Beaton's drawing of Garbo's glamorous eyes! This comes in repeat on linen and in larger scale as a cushion on silk satin.

GG's eyes by Beaton

In addition, Beaton's biographer, Hugo Vickers will be giving 2 lectures on Beaton's life and work at the event.

More Details  HERE!

 
Garbo and Beaton, England 1951

We are sure it will be of interest to all Garbo fans ,-) Oh and GarboForever may get some pictures which we will ad to the NEWS in the coming weeks.

More on GG and Beaton  HERE  and  HERE!

September 9, 2009

GG's birthday tribute on TCM

TCM Birthday Tribute: Greta Garbo on Sept. 18. GG was born on this day in 1905, and TCM celebrates by airing seven of her films.

More Details  HERE!

September 6, 2009

New on YouTube

Garbo kisses

Thanks to megchristie1

Garbo, Tarzan, King Kong and Me Myself and I

Thanks to Henning

September 1, 2009

Kansas City Public Library to host 1930s film series Grand Hotel

The Kansas City Public Library will be hosting a 1930s film series during the month of September.  Box Office Gold - Cinema of the 1930s will be showcasing a selection of films that "helped establish the industry as 'recession proof'" beginning with Grand Hotel (1932).

Grand Hotel will be showing this Saturday, September 5th, at 1:30 pm at the Central library location in downtown Kansas City .

More Details  HERE!

August 30, 2009

When Garbo talks! New musical on Miss G.

International City Theatre in Long Beach- California/USA, celebrates its 25th Anniversary Season with two new musicals featuring Hollywood legends – Backwards in High Heels: The Ginger Musical, a Los Angeles premiere musical biography of Ginger Rogers, and When Garbo Talks!, a world premiere musical about Greta.

When Garbo Talks! (October 12 – November 14, 2010) is a comic, moving and tuneful look at the events leading to Garbo's discovery and rise to stardom at the dawn of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Book and lyrics are by Buddy Kaye and music is by Mort Garson.

More  HERE!

August 30, 2009

Gösta Berlings Saga & Luffar-Petter screening in Brussels/Belgium

October 16th, 2009 on 19.30 in the CINEMATEK in Brussel.

More info  HERE!

August 23, 2009

The Painted Veil DVD?

The Painted Veil coming on DVD or not? I got dozen of ‘news' though it all looks as if it's an unofficial DVD from Brazil.

More Details  HERE!

August 23, 2009

Garbo-ism

There is an interesting internet article about GG  HERE!

August 15, 2009

Merchzilla tributes GG with a t-shirt

This online web shop sells stiff from young designers and they just released a couple of t-shirts dedicated to Hollywood 's glamour girls The ‘Diva Galore' shirt can be ordered on their website.

More Details  HERE!

August 15, 2009

TCM presents a day of Fredric March movies

Incl. Anna Karenina with GG.

GG and March

Turner Movie Classics (TCM) is presenting a day of Fredric March movies on Monday, August 24, 2009, as part of their Summer Under the Stars program. March was one of Hollywood 's leading stars of the 1930's and 1940's. Movies on Monday include We Live Again, A Star is Born, There Goes My Heart, Mary of Scotland, One Foot in Heaven, Christopher Columbus, Bedtime Story, Nothing Sacred, Les Miserables, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Anna Karenina and, Middle of the Night.

Anna Karenina  starts at 11:45 PM by Adverse.

More Details  HERE!

August 14, 2009

Greta Garbo: The Signature Collection gets a re-release in the UK

Sadly it is just a re-release of the 2007 issued 6 disc-set. Out on October 12, 2009

More Info:
- Ninotchka
- Queen Christina
- Camille
- Anna Christie
- Anna Karenina
- Mata Hari

Get it  HERE!

August 10, 2009

The fab Austrian Joyless Street DVD gets a NEW German release date

Last year we reported that the German DVD version from the Austrian version will be out in May 2009 but the release date was changed. Die Freudlose Gasse (Germany 1924) will be issued as a 2 -Disc Box on October, 23 in Germany.

Studio: Film Museum München
Run Time: 148 minutes
Release Date: October 23, 2009

Special Features:
- Music by Aljoscha Zimmerman
- Pressphotos
- Der andere Blick (Germany 1991), Documentary 
- Pabst wieder sehen (Germany 1997), Documentary
- CD-ROM with screenplay concepts and documents
- Booklet with essays by Jan-Christopher Horak and Werner Sudendorf 

Get it  HERE!

August 1, 2009

Meeting of Two Queens screening;  August 2, 2009

The cult video-film Meeting of Two Queens by C. Barriga is a part of the exhibition Lost and Found - Queerying the Archive , at Nikolaj, Copenhagen Centre of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is open Tues-Sunday until August 2, 2009.

More Details  HERE!

Thanks to Anna

July 23, 2009

'Garbo special' on Italian radio

We just came back from our trip to Italy , beautiful and hot hot hot Italy. Visiting another huge GG fan (Anna aka our RubyRed) and to our surprise, Anna opened a ‘News magazine' which sais that there is a HUGE special GG report on radio starting in late July.

The Title of the program by Italo Moscati is Alle 8 della sera- Greta Garbo - Un racconto alla radio.

Its Garbo's story told in 20 parts (July 27 to August 21, from Monday to Friday) and it is broadcasting by the Italian radio station Radio2Rai.

More Details  HERE!

Thanks to Anna

June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson R.I.P.

We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was only 50. We had to post this sad News here. Truly heartbreaking.

Mike 1958 - 2009

Garbo loved Michael Jackson!

It is said that Garbo waxed lyrical about Michael Jackson in an almost girlishly adoring way. “He is a handsome and so musical, I never miss seeing him on television if I can help it. What a star he is!”

In the 1980s, the The Globe magazine wrote: Michael Jackson met Garbo secretly. He wore a beard, sunglasses and cap so nobody can recognise him. He went to her apartment for a secret meeting.

Mike, you are a legend and legends live on... forever.

June 14, 2009

Three GG films on German TV this July!

Freitag, 3. Juli 2009
7.20 WDR
Wie du mich willst
Melodram, USA, 1932, 67 min

Mittwoch, 8. Juli 2009
0.05 Das Erste
Die Kameliendame
Melodram, USA, 1936, 104 min

1.55 Das Erste
Die Frau mit den zwei Gesichtern
Liebeskomödie, USA, 1941, 85 min

Enjoy, TJ

June 13, 2009

Great Temptress article

 
GG in The Temptress

Temptress: Garbo the Goddess

It has been almost twenty years since the passing of Greta Garbo and over sixty years since her last film; but she persists, waiting to captivate anyone who cares to cast eyes upon her enchanting image flickering on even the smallest screen.

Made in 1926, The Temptress is only Garbo's second American movie. It is one of the last great silent pictures.

The Temptress was adapted from popular silent era novelist Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The story begins in a Parisian costume party; back from a long sojourn the Argentine Engineer Robledo (Antonio Moreno), meets and falls in love with the mysterious Temptress Elena (Garbo) who also vows her undying devotion; the scene is wonderfully filmed by legendary cinematographer William Daniels. Robledo then visits the home of his friend Torre De Bianca (Armand Kaliz), the Marquis where he is shocked to find Garbo married to the Marquis. Fontenoy the banker (Marc McDermott), invites them to dinner and we see a clever long overhead tracking shot of the guests at table. The banker offers a toast to the Temptress who has driven him to financial ruin and suicide.

Robledo returns to Argentina where he is working on a massive dam. But Elena and her husband arrive in Argentina where Elena flirts with practically every available male, Torre's men all vie for the attention of Garbo. Robledo and bandito Manos Duras (Roy D'Arcy) savagely attack each other with whips, many men die, and the bandits blow up the dam; all because of one woman. The film was given two different endings; one tragic, one happy.

Garbo felt that M-G-M was typecasting her in The Temptress, after a similar vamp role in Torrent 1926. Garbo was not pleased with her performance in The Temptress but audiences and critics were captivated by her alluring screen presence. Garbo always felt awkward in Hollywood, she wrote to a friend in Sweden, "They don't have a type like me out here, so if I can't learn to act they'll soon tire of me, I expect." How wrong she was. The press was almost unanimous in praise. Among Garbo's many admirers, the Poet Carl Sandburg, in the Chicago Daily News writes: “Greta Garbo, slim, pale, like willows turning yellow in autumn…Gowned to kill, directed in such a manner that her face is full to the camera most of the time, she scores a downright triumph” and “Greta Garbo may be recommended as something indeed for all adults to look upon.” Dorothy Herzog in the New York Mirror describes how Garbo's "alluring mouth and volcanic, slumbrous eyes enfire men to such passion that friendships collapse."

Garbo's friend and mentor Swedish director Mauritz Stiller was removed from the picture after only 10 days of shooting by M-G-M production chief, Irving Thalberg, for many of the same reasons he had earlier fired Erich von Stroheim at Universal; an Inability to follow instructions and budgetary constraints. Fred Niblo, director of Blood and Sand 1922 and Ben-Hur 1925, was brought in to complete the film.

Like all of the truly great stars Garbo had that intangible screen presence; but she revealed something more; a mysterious, almost otherworldly quality that I have not seen in any other woman on the screen. Historian David Thomson attempts to describe the phenomenon: “The only way men can respond to a star is to gaze at it from another planet... she established herself forever as a magical figure, a true goddess, remote and austere, but intimate and touching…arguments may persist on whether she was wise or dumb, androgynous or uninterested. But sooner or later such trivia will evaporate and a mysterious truth will be left–she was photographed. She was all in the silver.”

Orginal article  HERE!

June 8, 2009

More news on the DVD of the restored The Joyless Street version!

Austrian company Filmarchiv Austria released a DVD version last fall. The DVD now has been released in Germany too and its likley that it will also get a USA release this winter. The deluxe, 2-DVD Region 2 release of the reconstructed The Joyless Street will contain the film itself, two documentaries, outtakes from the film, and a gallery of stills and lobby cards. The DVD will be available from Edition Filmmuseum in July of 2009.

 
Greta in The Joyless Street

Austrian DVD 2008

German DVD 2009

The German DVD does feature:
- Die freudlose Gasse (Germany, 1925), 148 minutes
- Music by Aljoscha Zimmermann
- Pressphotos
- Der andere Blick (Germany 1991), Documentary
- Pabst wieder sehen ( Germany 1997), Documentary
- CD- ROM with screenplay concepts and documents
- Booklet with essays by Jan-Christopher Horak and Werner Sudendorf

You can get the DVD  HERE!

June 7, 2009

Queen Christina screening in Geneva

In Geneva they show Queen Christina at the CAC Voltaire, there will be a discussion after the film with a film historian. It is at 16.00 PM on Saturday 20th June.

 
GG  as Christina

More Details  HERE!

Thanks to Nakis

June 3, 2009

Garbo by Robert de Michiell

The Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA, will present A Dozen Divas: Artwork by Robert de Michiell, an exhibit of iconic portraits, on Friday, June 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the gallery's exhibit space at 423 Commercial St. Refreshments will be served. The show will run through June 25, 2009, and coincides with the Provincetown International Film Festival (June 17-21).

The divas interpreted by de Michiell include: Garbo, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Diana Ross.

Garbo by Robert de Michiell

More info  HERE!

June 2, 2009

Flesh and the Devil screening in California

Silent Movie Mondays returns to the Paramount this week, with the 1926 Greta Garbo/John Gilbert Flesh and the Devil. Dennis James will introduce the film and provide live accompaniment on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. This screening will be free.

 
GG and Gilbert

More Details  HERE!

Thanks to RubyRed

May 30, 2009

Christie's are selling Garbo's table

Lot Description: A NORTH EUROPEAN PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME DECORATED TILT-TOP TRIPOD TABLE MID 19TH CENTURY

The hinged dished cartouche-shaped top decorated with various simulating marbles and centred by grape-vine above a scrolled base, the underside lined with a label inscribed Tillhört Filmskøadespelerskan Greta Garbo i hennes svenska gods. Inköpt pøa Freys Auktion i Sthlm maj 1947 (Belonged to the movie actress Greta Garbo at her Swedish mansion. Purchased at Freys Auction in Stockholm, May 1947).

More Info  HERE!

Thanks to Anna

May 23, 2009

New on Youtube

The Divine Garbo , hosted by G. Close in Spanish.

More  HERE!

May 18, 2009

Film Academy Pays Tribute to 1939

Academy will screen the 10 films nominated for the best picture Oscar that year. Ninotchka will be screened at July 13 (Beverly Hills/USA).

GG in Ninotchka, 1939

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to pay homage to one of the greatest years for movies by honoring ten legendary films from 1939. The Goldwyn Theater will offer up one of these treats every single week.

More Details  HERE!

May 17, 2009

'Garbo and me': Another play on Garbo?

There is an article which could be of some interest, since it talks about un upcoming theatre project (probably on Broadway) on the life of Garbo and in particular her relationship with Mimi Pollack (probably based on Tin Andersén Axell 2005 released book, Djävla älskade unge on, about the correspondance between Garbo and Pollack). The Broadway actress Kate Shindle, is to star in this play and it wiull be written and produced by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Sydney Lessner

A similar play premiered in europe last year. Go  HERE!

Broadway actress Kate Shindle

Rosenblum and Lessner may will writing a show just for Shindle. “We once said to her, ‘We'd love to write a musical for you,' and she said, ‘Well, I've always wanted to play Greta Garbo.' So the three are developing 'Garbo and Me.'

“The ‘Me' refers to Mimi Pollak, Garbo's life-long love,” says Lessner. “When Garbo was in Hollywood, she spent a lot of time saying she wished she could return to Sweden to be with Mimi, and yet, once she retired from films, she didn't do that.” Perhaps the musical will explain why.

More info  HERE!

Thanks to Nakis

May 14, 2009

Screening of Ninotchka in USA

Ninotchka will be screened at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 16,  at the Michigan Theatre (Detroit/USA).

Ninotchka

More info  HERE!

May 13, 2009

Garbomanicas in Sweden

We just came back from Garboland. As a group of 9 GG fans, we had amazing fun and share many exciting moments. To share with other fans, here are some new pics from her grave etc.

Katarina Kyrka

Mosebacke Theater

 
Blekingegatan

 
Katarina Södra Folkskola

Skogskyrkogården

The Gustafson Family Grave

The Hospital were Greta was born

Stockholm by night: the Grand Hotel

 
Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern

PUB

Grave Stone

Garbo Stockholm tour. More  HERE!

Thanks to Anna

May 13, 2009

Screening of Die freudlose Gasse and The Kiss in Belgium

The Ciné-Club a Brussels (Belgium) will screen two Garbo films on June 11 (Die freundlose Gasse) and 27 (The Kiss).

Die freudlose Gasse (1925)

The Kiss (1929)

Thanks to Jean-Charles

May 7, 2009

New on Youtube

Torrent 'love scene' with fab music.

More   HERE!

Thanks Danielle

May 4, 2009

The Valentina book

As you all now a Valentina book came out in February, 2009. The title is: Valentina - American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity. Valentina was the twentieth century's first American fashion designer celebrity, working and living on equal social footing with the clientele she dressed (Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, Millicent Rogers, and Audrey Hepburn, among others).

One of the few designers who proved that America could live without the Parisian haute couture, her career is a much needed missing link in the history of American fashion. Beyond merely turning out show-stopping evening gowns, Valentina's exotic beauty, dramatic personality, and incomparable style earned her a legendary reputation.

Book cover

The book is truly a gem and a whole chapter is dedicated to Garbo titled: Enter Garbo. The book does also feature three never before published pictures of Garbo.

EXHIBITION

There is an exhibition going on about her in the Museum of the city of NY that started on 14th february 2009 and goes until May 17:

"Fit the century, forget the year."

Valentina Sanina Schlee (1899-1989) — known professionally simply as Valentina — was a fashion pioneer, clothing such luminaries as Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Cornell, and Mrs. Randolph Hearst and helping to invent American couture in the process. Hers was the quintessential New York success story: she arrived in the city as a young immigrant and reinvented herself as the epitome of style and glamour, becoming a fixture in the fashion pages and a major celebrity in her own right.

Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity is the first exhibition to trace the career of this legendary designer and features never-before-exhibited gowns, accessories, photographs, and printed matter from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the Valentina family, and other major collections.

Valentina had an unwavering view of personal style and once declared, "I hate fashion!" implying that while trends often bullied women, true style was immutable. She also advised "Fit the century, forget the year."

Never before exhibited examples from the designer's personal couture collection and other ephemera will be on view. Additional highlights of the exhibition are drawn from renowned public and private collections including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum at FIT, the Brooklyn Museum, and the substantial holdings of the Museum of the City of New York.

You can see a report for the Exhibition  HERE!

Thanks to Isaura and Gianni.

May 3, 2009

Garbo and the beret

Nice article about the 'beret'. Can be found  HERE!

Garbo and the beret

May 1, 2009

New DVDs are out!

Finally new DVDs. USA release date, June 2009. They will issue: The Temptress, Love, The Mysterious Lady, Wild Orchids, The Single Standard and The Kiss.

    

Get them at AMAZON.com  HERE!

April 29, 2009

*Srepac's scan of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by Srepac!

Visit the Gallery  HERE!

April 21, 2009

Cecil Beaton Exhibition in London

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most influential and prolific image makers of all time. He created some of the most iconic images of many stars and of course Garbo.

From the 22nd April, an exhibition of Beaton's photographs will be on display at the Chris Beetles Gallery in Central London in collaboration with premier auction house, Sotheby's. The collection will feature original vintage prints, as well as modern prints produced form initial negatives drawn from the extensive archive at Sotheby's. More Info  HERE!

 
Garbo by Beaton

Each of the beautiful modern prints will be available in an edition of 50, all adorning the archive's official stamp. There will also be a fully illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition, available for £10 from the Chris Beetles Gallery.

Opening hours: 10am - 5.30pm Monday - Saturday.

More on GG and Beaton  HERE!

April 11, 2009

New GG Paper doll by Norma Lu Meehan

Garbo is the new subject of a beautiful paper doll book by talented artist Norma Lu Meehan. Featured are 3 dolls of the great star and exquisitely rendered costumes from her famed films of the '20s and '30s including Camille, Mata Hari, Anna Christie and others.

Authorized by the Garbo estate, this is truly an important collectible book for paper doll fans and classics cinema buffs. Included is a bio by David Wolfe of the star, from her humble beginnings in Sweden to her Hollywood glory and her long, lonely retirement.

Available August 2009

More Info   HERE!

Thanks to Anna.

April 9, 2009

Svenska Stumfilmsklassiker Box

I just saw that this amazing box was released (November 2008) in Sweden.

It does incl. 6 restored Swedish silent film classics such as: Terje Vigen (Victor Sjöström, 1917), Herr Arnes pengar (Mauritz Stiller, 1919), Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller, 1920), Körkarlen (Victor Sjöström, 1921), Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922) und Gösta Berlings saga (Mauritz Stiller, 1924).

More Info   HERE!

April 1, 2009

New info on Garbo's real color photos

We want to thank Leo form America for sending us this information. When we started this homepage we created a section for Garbo's real color pictures. The origin on those photos are quite mystic and we did not know if they all were real.

real or not real?

Leo told us that the  photo was reproduced in the book Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal and published in 1981.  It is an autentic color photograph taken on the set by photographer Frank Grimes.  Now the mystery is solved yet we still do not know the orgin on those photos:

Still a mystery!!

The other pictures from Camille may have been taken by Clarence Sinclair Bull as stated in the description in the book: "One of only four color stills cameras in Hollywood belonged to MGM, where Clarence Sinclair Bull took the first color portraits of Greta Garbo in costume for her role as Marguerite Gautier in 'Camille'."

So, there is a good chance that the other Camille photos are real color and not colorizied. 

More Info   HERE!

Thanks to Leo Caroll.

April 1, 2009

*Werner's movie stills of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by GarboWerner!

Visit the Gallery HERE!

March 29, 2009

New Garbo DVDs

Due of my busy schedule with my exams, i totally forgot to tell you this exciting News. Warner Brothers has introduced a new DVD-on-demand offering for fans of niche vintage films. At WarnerArchive.com, the studio is now selling about 150 of the more obscure and offbeat movies from its library, and they can be ordered directly for $19.95 each.

“Many of these films I do not believe would have had a home at retail, due to their narrow appeal,” said George Feltenstein, Warner's senior vice president for theatrical catalog marketing. They include Garbo films such as: The Kiss, Love, The Single Standard and Wild Orchids.

The only inconvenient is that they can only be shipped in the US. We do not know yet if they will also intend to commercialise them through Amazon too.

More Info   HERE!

Thanks to Nakis and Anna

March 27, 2009

Garbo fragances by Grès: Now available!

The Austrian perfum company Grès, will release (spring 2009) three Garbo dedicated fragances. The three fragrances of the Parfums Grès Collection Hommage à Greta Garbo will be offered as Eau de Parfum in 60 ml bottles. The names are: Mythos , Sphinx and Goddess .

60ml bottles of each fragrance will be available in eau de toilette form from spring 2009, retailing at 59 Euros.

Press Release: Launch of the Parfums Grès Collection – Hommage à Greta Garbo

A year after the release of Hommage à Marlene Dietrich, Parfums Grès is preparing to launch a new trio of scents dedicated this time to Garbo called Hommage à Greta Garbo which will launch in the spring of 2009. Like Marlene Dietrich, Garbo was one of the famous customers of couturière Madame Grès.

The set comprises Mythos , Sphinx , Goddess in reference to the particular charisma that exuded from the star whom people could not wait to see laugh at long last in what must have been the most self-conscious laugh in history in Ninotchka (1939). And she did, beautifully so, and a bit strangely at the same time.

"With her classic beauty, her noble aura and an occasional playful wink of the eye, she (Greta Garbo) fascinated both men and women. The fact that she loved being alone and hated the media frenzy enhanced her appeal to the public. In the course of her 19-year film career in which she made 27 films, she gave only 14 interviews.

She was referred to as „the Goddess" or the „Swedish Sphinx". In contrast to other Hollywood stars she never gave an autograph, never attended the premieres of her films and never answered fan mail. In spite of this, she had a powerful effect on her times and the fashion of her day. The way she wore her make-up, styled her hair and dressed greatly influenced the trends of the Thirties." ...

Mythos – Hommage à Greta Garbo is a floral fruity perfume that interprets elegance in a new and youthful way, for fruity notes are especially popular with younger women. The head note tantalizes with the scents of apples, oranges, black currants and pineapple. The classic, elegant floral accents unfold in the heart note - rose, freesia and peony - typical ingredients found in sophisticated French perfumes. Subtle sensuousness permeates the whole fragrance composition through the delicate base note of musk, sandalwood and iris.

Sphinx – Hommage à Greta Garbo is a delicate fresh-floral perfume. The essences of exotic blossoms blend in a refined manner with woody and fruity fragrances. First the delicate scents of litchi, peach and Yuzu (a precious citrus fruit from Asia) captivate the senses. After a few minutes the exhilarating heart note of lotus blossoms, rose petals and white peony unfolds, then merges perfectly with the discreetly disarming base notes of cedar, musk and patchouli.

Goddess – Hommage à Greta Garbo is a floral-oriental perfume, a fragrance that expresses the elegant sensuousness of the great artist. In Goddess the most beautifully eroticizing fragrance essences delicately cast their spell: The head note mesmerises with plum, mandarin orange and cardamom. In the heart note, a voluptuous cocktail of cinnamon, heliotrope and jasmine unfolds. The base note beguiles with sandalwood, moss, vanilla and ambergris, merging wonderfully with the skin. The bottle and packaging were designed by the Parisian design studio Aesthete.

The three fragrances of the Parfums Grès Collection Hommage à Greta Garbo will be offered as Eau de Parfum in 60 ml bottles, each at a price of CHF 89.00 or Euro 59.00. Available as of Spring 2009 at selected perfumeries.

More info   HERE!

March 21, 2009

*Srepac's scan of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by Srepac!

Visit the Gallery HERE!

March 18, 2009

Garbo and Ture

Swedish/American artist Ture Sjolander shot Garbo in the early 1970s. We found new GG images which were shot by Ture in 1971. See more  HERE!

Garbo by Ture

March 8, 2009

*Werner's movie stills of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by GarboWerner!

Visit the Gallery HERE!

March 5, 2009

News about "Garbo - the Bio-Pic"

As you may know, a  Garbo bio-pic, by Buddy Bregman is in production and will star Anna-Karin Eskilsson as Garbo. Anna just made  an ad campaign for the new white Samsung LCD TV. For the campaign she was photographed in a 30's styled image.

Anna-Karin Eskilsson in 'Garbo image' ?

The movie is still planned to be released sometime in 2009. More info on the film  HERE,  HERE  and  HERE!

Thanks to Anna aka RubyRed

March 1, 2009

Garbo autograph to be sold at Sporting Auction House

Mullock's Specialist Sporting Auctioneers - Europe's No.1 Sporting Auction House, is a GG autograph, on March 5th.

More Info  HERE!

Thanks to Dirk

March 1, 2009

Screening of Ninotchka in Germany

On March 4,  the Kommunale Kino in Trossingen (a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany) will screen Ninotchka.

More Info  HERE!

February 11, 2009

*Werner's movie stills of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by GarboWerner!

Visit the Gallery HERE!

February 7, 2008

Garbo at TCM – February 2008 schedule!

TCM USA

August 4:  Ninotchka (10:00 AM)

August 7:  Grand Hotel (10:00 AM)

Garbo DVD petitions
 
Garbo on DVD! A little reminder to sign the Garbo DVD petitions to get more of her films on DVD!

Please support us and sign  HERE  or  HERE!

January 25, 2009

*Srepac's scan of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by Srepac!

Visit the Gallery HERE!

January 19, 2009

Garbo - rare NEWS CLIP from 1938 press conference

More  HERE!

January 4, 2009

New screening of Die Freudlose Gasse in Germany

On Jan 24, the German 7. Karlsruher Stummfilmtage is showing Die Freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street) in ZKM und im Studentenhaus in Karlsruhe/Germany.

More Info  HERE!

January 6, 2009

*Werner's movie stills of the month! Gallery Update!*

Very large special scans by GarboWerner!

Visit the Gallery HERE!