1920's Silent Hollywood "Fame Lost" Greta Garbo John Gilbert Part One

[HarborGuy]

The lighting is awesome..........

[bjnevin]

Keep an eye out for the lovely and ever-smiling Norma Shearer at 5.00 and 7.40! :) Love her so much, she's so radiant and exciting at the premiere...I'm sure she and GIlbert must have gotten on so well after having made "He Who Gets Slapped" in 1924.

[WatchVenusSpa]

NOBODY, not even Clark Gable EVER inherited Valentino's crown.

[HarborGuy]

@pastelpinkgirly then don't watch -

[miguelucho20008]

The narrator is James Mason, isn't it?

[HarborGuy]

@miguelucho20008 Yes........

[ccipollini1984]

Never in a million years will ANYONE inherit Valentino's mantle. At ALL.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Greta IS Hollywood.

George Vreeland Hill

[lupettamannara1]

Splendido ed esaustivo del personaggio.

[superdavid002]

I mention Gilbert and Garbo in The Celebrity Song.

[lensjockeyvideo]

yeah, the opening music for that series, would make me cry, it was so evocative. that is why I went looking for it on youtube. it was such great series.

[nuria411]

Please, can you tell me the title of first music, the first 19 seconds of this clip? I love it, thank you very much :)

[gjford1951]

I don't have the name. But it was the theme song for a series on silent films called The Hollywood Series: A celebration of silent film, that was produced by Kevin Brownlow in the 1980s. Carl Davis did the music. Though this piece (which you also here reprised several times in the course of the program) sounds authentically like something from the early 1900s. Hope this helps.

[nuria411]

Thanks so much, gjford1951 :)

[22moviefan22]

Favorite On and off screen couple. i just love those two together. I wish Garbo would have married him they would have made a beautiful couple no matter how long it would have lasted.

[TonyLyndellWilliams]

Tragically, Gilbert died years before Garbo.

Did she ever speak publicly about Gilbert after his death?

Gilbert is the silent era version of Clark Gable.

[22moviefan22]

she found out he died while she was at a play. She left the play earily and avoided the press. So one reporter made up a story that she said of his death "and what is that to me." But she later said to another reporter breaking her rule of silence that she was saddened by the news about someone she cared deeply for.

[Slowlondon]

@TonyLyndellWilliams One said she had not said anything to his death. Kept silence.

[4MaryAnna]

The music when Garbo pulls back the hanging vines,that's the one that really gets me.Plus,the theme music used in the Flesh and the devil.I own the big G.G.box set and I guess I asumed it was all original music.

[4MaryAnna]

does anybody know the name of the music in the movie "Flesh and the devil"?

[PC3900]

It was specifically composed for this series by Carl Davis, and was used in the MGM-Thames Silents video release of Flesh and the Devil in the late 1980s. It is a gorgeous theme!

[4MaryAnna]

thanks for the info,I just adore this music!

Do you know what music was originally used for this film?

[PC3900]

Special orchestral scores for films in the '20s were pretty rare. Most of the theater venues across the country usually had a piano, organ, or very small ensemble of musicians, all of varying musical ability, so a complex score would not have been widely usable. The scores were generally based on stock themes, and studios and distributors would send out cue sheets for musicians to work from.