Greta Garbo : Actress Height, Weight, Age, Movies, Biography, News, Images & Videos

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Generally regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, Garbo was known for her melancholic, somber persona due to her many portrayals of tragic characters in her films and for her subtle and understated performances

Greta Garbo Movies and TV Shows

• 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year [14 October 2011]

  Filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz pays tribute to Vito Russo, author of `The Celluloid Closet' and one of the Gay Pride movement's leading activists.

• A Scarlet Angel [1921]

• A Woman of Affairs [22 August 1930]

  The movie revolves around an actress, Rita, who leaves a wealthy lover for a young priest.

• Anna Christie [21 February 1930]

  The film is about a fallen woman Anna and how she falls in love with a sailor called Matt while looking for her father Chris who abandoned her with cruel and abusive relatives on a farm.

• Anna Karenina [7 September 2012 (Ireland)]

  Aristocrat Anna Karenina, who is married and has a son, meets Count Vronsky while visiting her brother. Their mutual attraction leads her to grief and tragedy.

• As You Desire Me [18 May 1925 (Berlin)]

  In the aftermath of World War I, Vienna is undergoing a drastic deterioration in its social conditions due to an economic crisis, and the residents living in one slum struggle to survive amid greed and exploitation. Lila Leid (Tamara Geva) is murdered, and hapless Egon (Henry Stuart) is arrested for the crime. Meanwhile, former bureaucrat Rumfort (Jaro Fürth) is ruined financially, so he and his daughter, Greta (Greta Garbo), are forced to live off the money Greta earns working at a brothel.… MORE

• As You Like It [1965]

  Clips from 1919 to 1959 show screen sex symbols including Theda Bara, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret.

• Billy Wilder Speaks [19 September 1969 (West Germany)]

  The search for a missing man leads private eye Marlowe to a scheme to blackmail a TV star involved with a gangster boyfriend.

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? [6 August 1975 (New York)]

  The Great Depression, in both its bleak lows and its artistic highs, is presented in this documentary. Featuring the grim reality that many Americans faced during the era, largely in the form of newsreel clips, the film also depicts how Hollywood dealt with this period of widespread poverty and unemployment. Much of the movie footage showcases glamour and extravagance, providing lively moments of escapism that contrast starkly with day-to-day life during the 1930s.… MORE

• Camille [12 December 1936 (Palm Springs)]

  A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. Tragic story of a woman sacrificing happiness for love.

• Conquest [10 October 1931]

  A young girl escapes her tyrant uncle to find a new life for herself. She ends up falling in love with a kind stranger, but fate ensures they keep bumping into each other in different situations.

• Diary for My Children [1997]

  How Jewish producers helped transform the Hollywood movie industry, with profiles of studio founder Louis B Mayer and others and a look at the films created in its golden age.

• Disco and Atomic War [17 December 1978 (United Kingdom)]

  A woman disguises herself as a man to search for her father.

• En lyckoriddare [1922]

• Flesh and the Devil [25 December 1926 (USA)]

  Flesh and the Devil is an American silent romantic drama film released in January 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the novel The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann.

• Grand Hotel [12 April 1932 (New York)]

  At a luxurious Berlin hotel between the wars, the once-wealthy Baron Felix von Gaigern (John Barrymore) supports himself as a thief and gambler. In this lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), and teams with dying accountant Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) against his former boss, crooked industrialist Preysing (Wallace Beery), and his ambitious stenographer, Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford).… MORE

• Greta [28 February 2019 (Australia)]

  Frances, a young woman, is charmed by Greta, a lonely older widow, after she returns her bag. Soon enough, Greta's horrific secrets start seeping into her life.

• Hollywood on the Tiber [6 August 1975 (New York)]

  The Great Depression, in both its bleak lows and its artistic highs, is presented in this documentary. Featuring the grim reality that many Americans faced during the era, largely in the form of newsreel clips, the film also depicts how Hollywood dealt with this period of widespread poverty and unemployment. Much of the movie footage showcases glamour and extravagance, providing lively moments of escapism that contrast starkly with day-to-day life during the 1930s.… MORE

• Hollywood Without Make-Up [7 February 2019]

  Gay nurse Pedro goes to criminal lengths to find his ailing transgender friend a hospital bed.

• Hollywoodism [23 September 1959]

  Menschen im Hotel is a 1959 German and French black-and-white drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, and produced by Artur Brauner. It starred O.W. Fischer, Michèle Morgan, Heinz Rühmann and Gert Fröbe. The screenplay was written by Ladislas Fodor and Hans Jacoby, based on the 1929 novel by Vicki Baum.

• Inspiration [27 July 1929]

  Arden is a free-spirited girl who lives her life on her terms, falls in love with a man but marries another man and spends her life with him.

• Konsum Stockholm Promo [16 May 1976]

  Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly dance together again for the first time in more than 30 years as they introduce classic musical numbers and comedy bits.

• Love [11 July 2008 (Kolkata)]

  Ria, a Christian music teacher, falls in love with Rahul, a wealthy Hindu boy. However, their different social and economic backgrounds create hurdles in their relationship.

• Luffar-Petter [1921]

• Marlowe [6 May 1994 (USA)]

  That's Entertainment! III is a 1994 American documentary film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 70th anniversary. It was the third in a series of retrospectives that began with the first That's Entertainment! and That's Entertainment, Part II.

• Mata Hari [24 April 1985 (France)]

  The seductive World War I spy (Sylvia Kristel) does business with officers (Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias) on both sides.

• Menschen im Hotel [1963 (USA)]

  A compilation of home movies that captures some of Hollywood's celebrities in candid, off-screen moments.

• MGM's Big Parade of Comedy [2006]

• Ninotchka [23 November 1939 (USA)]

  A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

• Paris Hilton, Inc. [2 July 2009]

• Queen Christina [26 December 1933 (USA)]

  Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between her love and responsibilities after she falls in love with a Spanish envoy despite being expected to marry someone with royal blood.

• Romance [15 November 1929]

  Irene, victim of a loveless marriage, falls in love with Andre, a young lawyer. However, after facing endless number of problems and tragedies, she finally manages to find happiness with Andre.

• Strictly Dishonorable [7 September 2009]

• Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) [4 August 1928]

  In this silent film, an Austrian officer unwittingly falls in love with a Russian spy

• That's Entertainment, Part II [16 May 1976]

  Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly dance together again for the first time in more than 30 years as they introduce classic musical numbers and comedy bits.

• That's Entertainment! III [3 May 1984 (Hungary)]

  Amid the political turmoil of 1940s Hungary, teenage girl Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkoczi) is sent to live with her Stalinist aunt, Magda (Anna Polony). Orphaned when her father became a casualty of the Stalinist purges, Juli, as she awakens to her own political consciousness, begins to rebel against Magda's stern iron rule. Juli and Magda's antagonistic relationship comes to a head as events in Hungary lead up to the failed 1956 uprising against the Soviets.… MORE

• The Divine Woman [1922]

• The Joyless Street [23 February 1929]

  John and Lili are on a business trip to Java. On their way they meet the Javanese Prince who falls for Lili and tries to break their relation.

• The Kiss [22 October 1937 (USA)]

  Conquest is the story of a married Polish countess who sacrifices her virtue in order to save Poland.

• The Love Goddesses [1965]

  Clips from 1919 to 1959 show screen sex symbols including Theda Bara, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret.

• The Miracle of Sound [1940]

  Take a look at the techniques and the process involved in the sound creation of a film.

• The Mysterious Lady [23 November 1934 (USA)]

  The Painted Veil is a 1934 American drama directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Greta Garbo. The film was produced by Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

• The Painted Veil [20 December 2006 (Los Angeles)]

  Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through life, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease that has spread in a village.

• The Saga of Gosta Berling [15 December 1928 (USA)]

  The movie revolves around Diana, who loves her childhood friend Neville, but is forced to marry David. When her husband mysteriously commits suicide, she decides to look for Neville.

• The Single Standard [14 January 1928]

  Marianne is in love with Lucien, a soldier but is forced to submit to Legrande, the producer of the theatre, for which she works. Soon she realises her love for Lucien and marries him.

• The Temptress [9 March 1924 (Finland)]

  In Sweden, priest Gösta Berling (Lars Hanson) is defrocked and publicly humiliated due to his fondness for drink. Gösta is soon hired by a countess to tutor her daughter, in hopes that he will eventually marry the girl and leave the family estate to the preferred, if foolish, son Henrik. When Henrik returns home from Italy with his young wife, Elisabeth (Greta Garbo), she falls for the former priest -- who then flees to a neighboring mansion to join a group known as the Knights of Ekeby.… MORE

• Torrent [3 October 1926 (USA)]

  Elena is blamed for the death of her husband Marquis. To escape the criticism, she goes to Argentina, where she meets Robledo, who is building a dam in Argentina.

• Two-Faced Woman [30 August 1935 (USA)]

  This 19th-century period piece is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. On a trip to St. Petersburg, Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo), neglected wife of the famed Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin (Basil Rathbone), meets a handsome military officer, Count Vronsky (Freddie Bartholomew). Vronsky becomes enamored of Anna and follows her back to Moscow to confess his feelings. Will she follow her heart to be with him, even if it destroys her family and results in public disgrace?… MORE

• Vito [1940]

  Take a look at the techniques and the process involved in the sound creation of a film.

• Wild Orchids [31 January 1931]

  A woman chooses to leave her lover rather than have his life ruined by the revelation of her tainted past.