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	MSN Encarta - Greta Garbo
		Other film appearances by Garbo include superb performances in Susan Lennox—Her Fall and Rise (1931; with Clark Gable), Grand Hotel (1932), Mata Hari (1932), Queen Christina (1933), Anna Karenina (1935), Camille (1937), and Ninotchka (1939).
		Her first sound picture was Anna Christie (1930), based on the play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill.
		Following her discovery by director Mauritz Stiller and her successful debut performance as the Countess Elizabeth Dohna in the Swedish film The Atonement of Gosta Berling (1924), Garbo accompanied her director, who had been hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios, to the United States.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565722/Greta_Garbo.html

	Sexual or Erotic Films
		Also, there were two films with Greta Garbo: Anna Christie (1930), and Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) - Garbo's fourth talking picture and the first Hollywood talkie to portray a fallen woman/prostitute (or 'cooch dancer at a carnival').
		This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
		Films of romance with heart-throb sexy lead characters may have sexual elements, but these are often secondary to the main plot goal - the search and attainment of love.
	filmsite.org /sexualfilms.html

	AllRefer Encyclopedia - Marie Dressler (Film, Biographies) - Encyclopedia
		Although she gained fame as a large, good-natured comedienne, she gave a strong performance as a disreputable old alcoholic in Anna Christie (1930).
		Her other films include Min and Bill (1931), Tugboat Annie (1932), and Dinner at Eight (1933).
		AllRefer Encyclopedia - Marie Dressler (Film, Biographies) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dressler.html

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article
		A 10-disc set that includes the new documentary Garbo plus some of her finest films from the silent & sound era such as Flesh and the Devil and Anna Christie.
		Director Lewis Milestone, an Oscar winner for the somber All Quiet on the Western Front (1931), showed a dazzling versatility and set a new trend in film comedies with the zippy pace and overlapping dialogue of The Front Page.
		The large and boisterous supporting cast includes Mae Clarke, who plays a self-sacrificing streetwalker and once named The Front Page as her favorite film.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,87886,00.html

	Biography for Greta Garbo
		After a few more films, such as The Temptress (1926), Love (1927/I), and A Woman of Affairs (1928), Greta starred in Anna Christie (1930) (her first "talkie"), which not only gave her a powerful screen presence, but also gave her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
		Later that year she filmed Romance (1930) which was somewhat of a letdown, but bounced back as lead role in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) with Clark Gable.
		It was a silent film where she didn't have to speak a word of English.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001256/bio

	Mata Hari (1932)
		Mata Hari was released in the Garbo heyday of 1931-33, and while her performance is celebrated in legend, the film itself doesn't live up to the hype, unlike her other films of the time, most notably Anna Christie and Grand Hotel.
		This is the most famous of the four films that have been made about the real-life Dutch-Javanese dancer/courtesan/alleged spy, and none has been particularly good, or particularly truthful, depending on whose version of Mata Hari's life one is to believe.
		Mata Hari had the misfortune of being made just a few years after talking pictures were invented.
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