Word: greta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greta Garbo, who has ducked behind floppy hats, napkins and even her own hair to keep out of newscamera lenses, was bested by vigilant photographers on a Manhattan dock as she arrived from France...
...Greta Garbo, determined to be alone, fled from Rome to Ostia for a few days rest before starting work in Paris on her first film in eight years (Balzac's Duchesse de Langeais). When a cameraman caught her strolling the black sands without the protection of her usual droopy hat, she took to cover anyway...
...Elusive Greta Garbo was still battling it out with photographers. Arriving...
...Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...
...system had made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made...