johnbabe
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do you mean the divine woman with Garbo?
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the missing sections are mainly three: first, the initial dance sequence is much longer and GG comes out in the end = viewed only from the back for obvious reasons, next - the scene when Ramon takes her home, and she goes behind the satin curtain and he is supposedly leaving, she then comes out in a see through negligee and a wonderful love scene ensues, and lastly, I think, the scene when he puts out the votive candle in his room, he then proceeds to kiss her and picks her and carries her into his room...................- that is what I believe is not in the version we all have seen and have on DVD= the movie was chopped up from its original form when it was re-released in 1936 or 1938 and the Breen office, said it was indecent in its original form - also you might take notice Two Faced Woman was ruined before its release - by stupid censorship! Hope this answer will help you see that the DVD you have is the cut and censored version.
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I know Ms. G was just a Summer under the stars day, but her birthday, not one film on her day, come on, gives us Garbo people a break, there are lots of us out there, who also did not have TCM where they lived until recently, so we have not been afforded the 17 years that you have been on the air, I also notice that you are showing re-runs next month of films you have just showed this month, how could you totally ignore GG's birthday! Explain that one!
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I am so glad you are a new fan, so am I of MS GARBO, I got to watch Queen Christina 2 years ago, when I was nursing a dislocated knee, and I said so what I will give it a chance, i always knew of her, her mystique and her beauty, but the acting blew me away, I am forever spoiled and I now compare every actress I see and compare them to Garbo, and Garbo blows them all away, L. B, Mayer said that he only had 3 actors at MGM all those years, Tracy, Garbo and Marie Dressler (who is in Anna Christie with Ms. G). He was the best judge of course!
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This was a very weak remake of Ninotchka, the Garbo filme (Oscar nomination for her first true comedy) it is ok, but the story lacks the punch and of course the lovely Garbo, it really misses the point and the three comrades are no match for the original three, her lines are severly cut, with Astaire having most the dialog in their scenes together, it is OK but no Garbo film can ever be remade, she was just toooooo strong an actress
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Garbo IS the Divine Woman, sadly only 20 minutes or so remain of this film, she was playing a young Sarah Berhardt! who else!
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She was just so breathtaking, i agree with you, so wonderful, indeed and she is great with Clark Gable playful and sweet, they truly looked great together, i cannot believe they could not stand eachother
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Greer Garson was a complete BORE
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As You Desire Me with Garbo in a Pirandello play, it is one of her greatest performances, get with it TCM you showed the usual pics of Garbo on her day in SUTS, how about ever showing this one!
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I am so thrilled that you have her on all day tomorrow, but TCM should have included films like Conquest, with Boyer, Susan Lenox with Gable and the silent film, Torrent!
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here is a nice pre-code (even though this the the censored re-issued version) it is still pre-code even with the cuts and Garbo is at her best!
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Do not forget to mention Ninotchka, what a shear delight for Garbo, Billy Wilder and Mr. L
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i love Garbo the best too, also Stanwyck, Crawford, Vivian Leigh - good choices right?
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Garbo did in fact lose most of her savings in 1932 when the Beverly Hills Bank failed, she was only able to get out some stocks from her safe deposit box, she was flat broke and that is why she reluctantly signed a new MGM contract BEFORE leaving for Sweden that year, however, Mayer conceded to some of her requests, but he had her over a barrel! She eventually did regain much of her money, and invested wisely as you say, she had many lovers, but I have heard that she was secretly married to Stiller at the age of 17 in Constantinople under her born name, Gustafasson, and that is why she did not marry John Gilbert, they say her only true love was Stiller!
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I watched as many of her films as i could - she was sheer delight, and should be on more often!
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Claude Rains stole the show in Mr. Skeffington, he made me cry, Davis made me laugh!
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I know GG is on tomorrow for 24 hours, but her birthday, the schedule for that day does not have one Garbo film, come on her birthday should be remembered give me a break, !
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what a sheer delight it was to have seen Ms. Dressler in some very fine movies, she was truly a delight to watch, please more of her films from time to time, even though they have aged, some not too well, but the acting and the star is there, also I enjoyed Anna Christie, which is really Garbo's film, but Marie was glorious in her scenes. Thanks TCM for this summer under the stars day!
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this is truly lovely, thanks
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check them out next month on her day in summer under the stars!
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Picnic is just about the most wonderful powerful love story ever filmed, everyone in the film, in my opinion was cast perfectly, i saw this move in the theatre when it was released in 1956 and the tender age of eight with my parents, and i loved it then (though i probably did not understand very much of it) and i love is very much today!
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I totally agree with you doesnot TCM stand for Turner CLASSIC Movies, not B pics from the 60's and later, ok, there are great films after the 40's but the people we like to see on TCM were more or less older by then, or retired, or in some cased deceased....I love my silents, and the golden age and I was not even born yet, in those times, but give me Camille any day, it is so classic!
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who is this guy?
The Divine Woman with Garbo
in Silent
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this is the only silent of Garbo to be lost - there is a very fine segment in the Garbo Collection - but can we please ask Robert Osborne, whom I just love, to see if TCM or Mr. Turner or Warner - can make more of a conserted effort to scan the globe and get us the original uncut film - I understand it is a Garbo masterpiece - she is playing, supposedly, the life of Sarah Berhardt - please try and find it - it has to be some where in this world - Garbo made such few films, but her magic presence made them all so sublime!