Garbo with tender partners

[Visage d'art]

Hello

Here are some infos about actors who played with Greta Garbo in her most famous movies:

- CONRAD NAGEL
He played with her in “The Mysterious Lady”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Nagel
I heard that there was a charm between them





So romantic!

- CLARK GABLE
He played with her in “Susan Lenox”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable



- FREDERIC MARCH
He played with her in “Anna Karenina”
His biography: www.geocities.com/fredric_march/biography.html


(very big size picture)

- MELVYN DOUGLAS
He played with her in “Ninotschka”
His biography: www.imdb.com/name/nm0002048/bio



- NILS ASTHER
He played with her in “Wild Orchids”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Asther
They had a love affaire together



- RAMON NOVARRO
He played with her in “Mata Hari”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Novarro
I heard that they got on well together during the movie



- JOHN BARRYMORE
He played with her in "Grand Hotel"
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore
She told him how much she appreciated to work with him because he was a big star!



- ROBERT TAYLOR
He played with her in "Camille"
His biography: www.nndb.com/people/437/000066239/



- LARS HANSON
He played with her in "The Divine Woman"
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Hanson



- CHARLES BICKFORD
He played with her in “Anna Christie”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bickford



- JOHN GILBERT
He played with her principally in “Queen Christina” and “The Kiss”
His biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_
Two good sites about him: silentfilmlegend.blogspot.com/
classicmoviefavorites.com/gilbert/portraitpics.html
She almost married him!





So cute!

Some of you, who already read a lot of biographies about Greta Garbo could surely give us a little summarizing about their relationship or add some other partners or links & photos?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Charlie

[garbo20]

Did'n Clark Gable and Greta not like each other?

[david]

garbo20 said:

Did'n Clark Gable and Greta not like each other?

Well, difficult to say but my opinion is only one film with her then no more! He was just a newcomer rather than Garbo? They looked good but it was not successful?

I read something in a book that she snobbed him....not fun so much! Maybe he interested sexy women like Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard!

[nicotschka]

I read that he was very nervous when he was told that he would appear next to Garbo...

[nakis]

It actually seems that Garbo really liked Gable and got along very well with him. It says so in the Barry Paris and Karen Swenson biography. Garbo was also present at the reception Gable and Lombard gave for their wedding and also whenever she met Gable socially outside the studio chatted cheerfully with him.

I do not know how this so called "hostility" between them was invented, I think it comes from that horrible and totally unreliable book by Gronowitz and unfortunately the false information appears at the Internet Movie base date as well.

[david]

nakis said:

It actually seems that Garbo really liked Gable and got along very well with him. It says so in the Barry Paris and Karen Swenson biography. Garbo was also present at the reception Gable and Lombard gave for their wedding and also whenever she met Gable socially outside the studio chatted cheerfully with him.

I do not know how this so called "hostility" between them was invented, I think it comes from that horrible and totally unreliable book by Gronowitz and unfortunately the false information appears at the Internet Movie base date as well.

Nakis, it is really true that I read two books "Life Apart" by Swenson and "Garbo" by Paris are true rather than fictious from Gronowitz and others.....really horrible and sad for lies and fables! I wonder why they wrote that she was snobbish!

[JOHN]

nakis said:

It actually seems that Garbo really liked Gable and got along very well with him. It says so in the Barry Paris and Karen Swenson biography. Garbo was also present at the reception Gable and Lombard gave for their wedding and also whenever she met Gable socially outside the studio chatted cheerfully with him.

I do not know how this so called "hostility" between them was invented, I think it comes from that horrible and totally unreliable book by Gronowitz and unfortunately the false information appears at the Internet Movie base date as well.

Agree and it was Gable who talked a bit neagative about GG in later years about their work.

[Visage d'art]

Thanks for the info about Clark Gable , never knows with the hearsay. I love very much this photo anyway.

I wonder which actors for the past 20 years until nowadays could have played again their characters?

I have imagined very sympathetic actors like:

- Jean Dujardin replacing John Gilbert
- Tom Hanks replacing Charles Bickford
- Harrison Ford replacing John Barrymore
- Jeff Daniels replacing Lars Hanson
- Richard Dreyfuss replacing Conrad Nagel
- George Clooney replacing Ramon Novarro
- Bruno Salomone replacing Nils Asther…

Do you have other ideas?

Charlie

[JOHN]

None really..todays actors don´t do much to me.

I wonder what could have happened if they really remade FLESH AND THE DEVIL in the early 50s.
Who could have starred next to GG?? Monty Clift? Brando? Peck?

Toodays actors:

I could see Orlando Bloom replacing R.Taylor in CAMILLE and George Clooney in TWO FACED WOMAN?

I like Jaquinn Phonix (spell?) and Heath Ledger! Mabye in ANNA KARENINA?

[Visage d'art]

I'm going to look at the actors you are talking about... Thank you, John.

I also imagine Bruce Willis replacing Melvyn Douglas .

I explain my choice: In Ninotschka, Garbo and Melvyn had long friendly dialogues and they drank a bit. I saw Bruce Willis doing it with Cybill Sheperd in “Moonlighting” on TV and it was very fun. He had this hearty “daddy” side like Melvyn, but was also terribly funny and teasing. For example, I remember a scene of an episode “The next murder you hear” about a radio man murdered www.tv.com/moonlighting/the-next-murder-you-hear/episode/46840/summary.html, where Bruce was drunk: strangely, it was the sole moment when he could be wise ;D! He was pretending to be very “old fashion” sentimentally while he appeared the opposite in reality, shameless and “fast as you can” man . That’s why the scene was good, because we couldn’t expect to hear him saying such a thing!!

All the rest of the story was rather garboish, especially when Cybill is in her car, listening to the man speaking from the radio station, wondering if he has wasted his life but comforting us at the same time. I remember that it was the blue and soft melancholic atmosphere of Moonlighting close to midnight…

Charlie

[Visage d'art]

John, I have looked at the actors you said, and I remember having seen them somewhere but I don't know them very well. I found them cute.

Concerning "Camille", I think Ewan McGregor (who played in Moulin Rouge and Star Wars) could replace Robert Taylor, because he's got something romantic and can be dramatic and fun too. I found "Camille" too stiff and I think Ewan could bring something against it. I found Robert Taylor good as Armand especially when he was upset against Marguerite. He was deeply moving but, most of the time, I found his character not enough varied.

I think Ewan could replace Conrad Nagel too, he's really close to his charm , but something in Richard Dreyfuss has captured my attention for this.

Here are some pics of Ewan:

www.abbeyboxoffice.co.uk/data/images/width140/ewan-mcgregor-guys-and-dolls-340.jpg

tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs8/300W/i/2005/321/0/b/Ewan_McGregor_by_shad0wz0ne.jpg

Kind regards,

Charlie