Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Greta Garbo [a] (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; [b] 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American [1] actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic and somber screen persona, her film portrayals of tragic ...
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. [1]
Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981) [1] was a Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid-1950s, known as "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over seventy feature films, sixteen of which were produced in the silent era.
Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo and Richard Carle Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. [1] It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, [1] based on a story by ...
Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 8 November 1928) was a Finnish film director of Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller was a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing and directing many short films from 1912.
Modern-day Greta Garbo. Dear Greta: Every year for the past 15 years, I have spent one month alone – isolated and away from family and friends – and so I well understand this distinct drive.
He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926. [2] Bull was able to study with the great Western painter, Charles Marion Russell. He also served as an assistant cameraman in 1918. [3]
Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor.Douglas came to prominence in 1929 as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the romantic comedy Ninotchka (1939) with Greta Garbo.