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QUINCY HOUSE DINING HALL, Grand Hotel, with Greta Garbo, Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
...Orson Welles continues its "Great Ladies" festival through the holidays, with Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story and the incomparable Greta Garbo in Camille. And next door they're pushing something about how people in high places aren't all they seem to be called The Werewolf of Washington. Louis Malle's Calcutta, shot at the same time as the Phantom India series (now on tv, incidentally), is at the Central along with Jean Luc Godard's Le Gai Savoir. Two more different political films would be hard to imagine, yet both apply New Wave ideas of using the camera...
...serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman delighted his many friends, among them Greta Garbo, for whom he did the screenplays of Queen Christina and Anna Karenina. In later years Behrman wrote biographies of Lord Duveen and Max Beerbohm and, at 75, his first novel, The Burning Glass, about a young playwright in the America and Europe...
...Flesh and the Devil. A story of passionate seduction and abandonment, with the legendary Greta Garbo as the sultry and mysterious lover of John Gilbert. This 1926 film sent waves of controversy throughout the entire industry, and it influenced romantic movies for years to come. Channel...
Marion joined the fledgling film industry shortly after World War I, quickly graduated from $15-a-week secretary to $17,000-a-week scenarist. She scripted Greta Garbo's first talkie (Anna Christie), Clark Gable's first romantic film (The Secret Six), and in 1930 and '31 won successive Oscars for two Wallace Beery movies (The Big House, The Champ). Just last fall Marion published her sentimental memoirs of Hollywood, Off With Their Heads...