Greta Garbo News

Idina Sackville, who Greta Garbo portrayed in the film "A Woman Of Affairs," is now the subject of her great-granddaughter's biography, in which Osborne tries to solve a mystery: What, in 1919, made Sackville abandon her husband and two young sons and take off for Kenya, where she married four more times and scandalized one of the oldest families ...

Great women in silent cinema — including Greta Garbo and Lillian Gish — are showcased in the Paramount Theatre's Silent Movie Mondays series, beginning June 8. Films on the lineup include: "Flesh and the Devil," June 8; "Romola," June 15; "The Godless Girl," June 22; "Seventh Heaven," June 29.

Auction for stamp of smoking Hepburn BERLIN - A collector stands to make a tidy profit after discovering a rare stamp portraying movie star Audrey Hepburn smoking - one of a series that should have been incinerated by the German government.

'Ninotchka,' starring Greta Garbo as a cold-hearted Bolshevik on a mission to Paris, is coming to the Ohmann Theatre Thursday, May 14.

A crudely bound old volume, containing many items of interest to the people of this section, has just been unearthed in the attic of the old Washington Hotel here, by Mr.

It doesn't hurt to fantasize on occasion. That's probably why so many glamorous movies with opulent sets and clothing are often made when times are hard.

The studio's been slowly rolling out about 100 vintage films a year over the last 12 years.

As Bogie once announced to Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca," "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He wasn't talking about the new Warner Archive Collection, the first-ever DVD on demand service introduced by a major U.S. studio, but for film buffs, he might as well have been.

In 1990, the year Madonna struck a pose by summoning the spirits of Greta Garbo and Monroe, the word vogue became a verb as well as a noun.

Belated good wishes to Suchitra Sen, who celebrated her birthday yesterday. Reclusive as Greta Garbo and one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the screen, she personifies the Bengali ideal of beauty.

Each year at this time we get to hear about or, if able to withstand the agony, watch a new group of pseudo-celebrities walk the red carpet at awards ceremonies seeking acclaim while begging to be interviewed and photographed.

I have seen the future of classic movies on DVD, and it's exciting. I recently spent hours sampling titles from Warner Archive, a new initiative that makes dozens of hard-to-find old movies available on demand -- on disc as well as via download.

Over the past 12 years, Warner Home Video has released about 1,200 vintage films from its library on DVD.

Anonymity has been always an essential aspect of espionage, which makes the association of celebrity names with the clandestine world of cloak and dagger spies all the more strange.

Here are five films in Warner Home Video's new manufacture-on-demand collection worth checking out: * 'The Actress' - George Cukor directed this delightful 1953 comedy based on the early life of actress Ruth Gordon.

Over the last 12 years, Warner Home Video has released about 1,200 vintage films from its vast library on DVD.

PARIS : For the first time, John Galliano 's show, even with all its creative juice swirling like the fake snowflakes above the runway, seemed irrelevant.

Leave it to Joe Cascone and the Civic Light Opera Company to bring about the first Toronto production of Cole Porter's final musical, Silk Stockings.

Greta Garbo: With Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka , the Swedish Garbo made a bold transition from sudsters to comedies.

Creamy white skin, sleepy, scary black eyes, a shock of spiky black hair and vivid arched lips, the colour of cherries.