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Anna Christie (1930)

Minnesota farmgirl Anna Christofferson (Greta Garbo) came to the New York docks in search of the barge skipper father (George F. Marion) whom she hadn’t seen since she was a child. As she falls in love with a rescued Irish sailor (Charles Bickford)--and her parent disapproves of the match--she’ll have to confront both with the sordid details in her past. Garbo’s storied talking picture debut, adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, also stars Marie Dressler, James T. Mack. 89 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Queen Christina (1933)

Greta Garbo is electrifying in this fanciful portrait of the fierce-willed, colorful, and controversial 17th-century Swedish monarch. After slipping from her palace in man-drag, she enjoys a surreptitious liaison with a Spanish envoy (John Gilbert) unaware of her identity...with the affair threatening to scuttle a politically motivated arranged marriage and her hold on the throne. Romantic classic, the fourth and final Garbo/Gilbert pairing, co-stars Ian Keith, Lewis Stone. 99 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Camille (1936)

In mid-19th century Paris, vivacious courtesan Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo) was looking a last provider to settle down with. She wound up losing her heart to attentive young attorney Armand Duval (Robert Taylor)...but their cultural divide and her fragile health may compromise any chance they have for happiness. Effective rendition of the tragedy by Alexandre Dumas fils also stars Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan, Laura Hope Crews. 109 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Ninotchka (1939)

Garbo Laughs! in director Ernst Lubitsch’s sparkling comic treat. Greta Garbo plays Ninotchka Yakushova, a stone-faced Soviet envoy who travels to Paris to oversee the sale of confiscated Imperial jewels, but finds herself falling for the freedom of the City of Lights...and for a suave playboy (Melvyn Douglas). Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart, Bela Lugosi also star; co-written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. 110 min. BW/Rtg: NR