Greta Garbo News

'She is pop music's Greta Garbo,' says John Aizlewood, the music critic with London's Evening Standard.

This November the movies are coming to Christie's South Kensington as a diverse selection of Vintage Film Posters and Film Memorabilia is offered encompassing all genres of cinema history from cult horror and sci-fi films to the icons of the silver screen.

Have you thought about your computer as an art-house movie theater, a showcase for classic silent films, unusual documentaries, a wide range of horror flicks and more? 'Tis true.

I love solitude. I throw my voice down deep, try in vain to be sultry, and intone Greta Garbo's famously misquoted line from Grand Hotel, "I vant to be alone." I cherish the times I can read uninterrupted or think undisturbed.

I enjoyed "South Pacific" and found Jesse Hamlin's article right on . I wasn't disappointed in a thing - except all the empty seats.

In the 1932 movie "Grand Hotel," actress Greta Garbo famously said, "I want to be alone." The line became identified with the aloof superstar.

The first surprise is Doris Roberts' voice. It is deep and husky, more Greta Garbo than Lucy of "I Love Lucy." Which is to say, Roberts, 77, sounds nothing like the high-pitched, nagging mother, Marie Barone, she played on the popular TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond" for almost a decade.

The prospect of a mocking 'Camille' might lead you to expect shades of Greta Garbo, but it's Judy Garland's spirit that dominates the raunchy, bittersweet show now vamping at the Clark Street Playhouse.

This 'Camille: A Tearjerker' is Charles Ludlam's 1973 drag travesty of the Dumas fils classic, and director Christopher Henley adds an updated dance club vibe and major lip-syncing interludes in the Washington Shakespeare Company's lovingly irreverent production. When the characters hit peaks of emotional distress, they mouth the words as great recordings of torch standards ('Stormy Weather,' 'What Now My Love') fill the room.

Liev Schreiber as Vilma in "Taking Woodstock" So I'm watching Taking Woodstock , Ang Lee's charmer about Elliot Tiber , who inadvertently made the storied Festival happen, and in walks Vilma, a musclebound blonde in a candy-pink dress, resembling Mamie Van Doren with stubble.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

Swordfish with Charlie Chaplin, gossip with Greta Garbo: a new book explores Alistair Cooke's life in Hollywood Geoff Brown It was the summer of 1933.

The Bolter -- The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless IDINA SACKVILLE, descendant of one of England's oldest families, who went off to KENYA in search of adventure and became known as the high priestess of the scandalous "HAPPY VALLEY SET" by Frances Osborne, Knopf '08, $30, 300 pages, ISBN #0307270149. Index, select bibliography, source notes, ...

Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in 'Ninotchka' , playing at Lighthouse International's Academy Theater on Monday.

WITH HIS EARLY fame, radiant good looks and precipitous retreat from the spotlight, Scott Walker could be described as the Greta Garbo of pop music.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen Ernst Lubitsch's "Ninotchka," starring Greta Garbo, on Monday July 13 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills as part of its "Hollywood's Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939" series.

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 ...