GRETA GARBO in english Anna Christie the whiskey scene

[ouilsonpapa]

Bonjour,

Ce film et cette scène (particulièrement) reste mémorable : +- 00:13:58/01:25:30

Au revoir from BELGIUM (Liège).

[Lorelai271]

Please can someone tell me where can I download this film?

[ouilsonpapa]

@Lorelai271

Vuze

[DiabolicalAngel]

Marty is totally checking Greta out as soon as she sits down. And Marie Dressler was a lesbian too so that kind of makes sense hahah. <3 this movie.

[ClareBElsey]

@DiabolicalAngel

LOL.. yeah, makes sense... but a lesbian too is slightly inaccurate.... considering Garbo was bisexual, bur predominantly lesbian according to the numerous biographies floating around. But, who could blame her since she allegedky told John Gilbert "You're not in love with ME you're in love with Garbo" she felt that the man she loved didnt love her for the right reasons.... *sigh*

Poor G.G. I feel very sad for her actually.... =(

[avaJ70]

@KURISUCHRIS99..YOUR A FUCKIN RE-RE...SHE WAS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL..QUIT WATCHIN OLD MOVIES DUMBASS

[johnnyvicious2]

Love the sing-song voice 'that suits me down to the ground'. You can see why she was a star - you can't take your eyes off her. 

[KURISUCHRIS99]

i notice in all the early thirties films,the sets look so grimy and old

but i guess thats becuase they are old.

[MabelNormand]

I do have to say i like the german version better, as well. She's lovely... she seems a bit stiff in the english version. I love the german version tho!!! :)

[WSenator1]

It also fascinated me about the conversion from silent to sound films, and to see those actors & actresses who went from one medium to the other enjoy equal or greater success. Hats off to Greta Garbo and Marie Dressler (the old lady in this scene)!

[mauvetys]

i can imagine the fabulous suspense of the audience, hearing for the first time her voice!

[VanLat7]

Yeah she wasn't that bad for being her first talkie movie but proudly our Norma Shearer won the Oscar that year for "The Divorcee' many crtitiziced that Garbo should win but please compare both actings and Norma was superior

[eleanorayoulateagain]

Every time I watch Garbo, I am just enchanted by her again and again and again.

What a great star she was.

[beyoncetyratina]

I just love her accent!

[HollyGoLightly1978]

She was so amazing!

[Keriane]

lol she makes me proud to be Swedish. Magnificent voice, so gravelly.

[WSenator1]

Heard about this scene so much over the years, I had to take a peek. The thing that is interesting is that here are two silent movie actresses, working in a sound film, after most of the silent screen stars' careers ended with talkies, and they do a great job with the new medium.

[brizia8518]

mitica garbo!

[ILoveYouUtadaHikaru]

Greta and Marie two great actresses

[MrSpartacus40]

Momento histórico para el cine: ¡Garbo habla!

[montaukinfeb]

"Gee I needed that bad allright all right..." lol... love this film and Garbo...

[scarletrose3]

QUOTE ALERT!!! 0:26

[intolingo456]

'AND DON'T BE STINGY BABY' absolutely Love GARBO.

[codyki]

It's funny how much more of a sourpuss she is in the American version compared to the German one. Not that she's any Suzy Sunshine in the German one, either, but there's more of a lightness about her -- and she laughs heartily in it, in the amusement park scene with Theo Shall as Matt, years before 'Ninotchka'. Of course I'd rather be on a date with Theo Shall than the relatively unattractive and hamfisted Charles Bickford, too. Shall was hot, and there's chemistry between him and Garbo.

[santasxgirlfriend]

i love this movie--- "and dont be stingy baby"

[sisalrug]

Her acting is so good. If you ever read this play her performance is completely perfect, just what the playwright described. I find it a heartbreaking movie---- she is so good in it that I feel sorry for her the whole time and it's hard to watch.

[Margabo]

Ah, she's fantastic... I would so like to drink with her...!

[annaenanna]

*SWOONS*

[Sarahbear1943]

thanks for posting.

is there any way you could post the part with her monologue, "put that in your pipe and smoke it!"

[tequilaal]

your wish has been granted "Sarahbear1943" and this is also one of my all time favorite Garbo scenes...and right after she quotes"I hate men"she puts in a spell binding performance..aahh the magic of Garbo..and this is only her first film...imagine

[DiabolicalAngel]

@tequilaal It was her first talkie not her first film. I agree though, Anna Christie is great.

[DiabolicalAngel]

@tequilaal Great thing too is she was speaking English phonetically, in reality she had no idea what she was saying because she hadn't yet learned English. Admirable indeed.

[Bitterblue911]

@DiabolicalAngel That's not true, she came to the USA in 1925! (Anna Christie was shot in 1929 and released in early 1930.) She had learned English by then. But you are right concerning her first silent pictures though - they had no audible dialogue, of course, but Garbo had to have an interpreter on the set so she could understand what the director wanted from her.

[DiabolicalAngel]

@Bitterblue911 She was still struggling quite badly with English, Much of this is phonetic. Regardless she's so lovely.

[Bitterblue911]

@DiabolicalAngel I think you're underestimating Garbo's intelligence. Why should she have to learn her lines phonetically after four (!) years of living in an English speaking country? It's just not true. I recommend a Garbo biography (the ones by Karen Swenson and Barry Paris are both quite good) or Mark Vieira's "Garbo - A Cinematic Legacy" for further information on the subject at which point Garbo had learned English well enough to be able to fully comprehend her dialogue.

[DiabolicalAngel]

@Bitterblue911 I have read Barry Paris' book and I distinctly remember him saying that she was not yet able to fully comprehend what she was saying. She wasn't entirely oblivious, but it did take her awhile to become fully fluent. It's not about intelligence or lack thereof, I have never doubted her intelligence, but even four years living in an English speaking country does not guarentee immediate fluency, especially considering that Garbo was so miserable for much of her acting career.

[Bitterblue911]

@DiabolicalAngel Oh? That's interesting! Don't remember that at all. I'll have to reread that part of the Paris book! :-)

[MiniKirk]

@tequilaal This wasn't her first film. This was her first talking film. Her first film was in 1920, when she was fifteen(ish).

[MrSKINFLICK]

@tequilaal:i am just watching Greta Garbo in the original German synchro she did for her own original English voice in"Anna Christie"-just amazing

.Hardly any accent,her German sounds more like the(Saxon)North Germans speak when they change from dialect/slang to high German.

Her permanent presence is also stunning+i am moved,because i didn´t know"Anna Christie"before.

ARD - the first German public TV channel - is showing 2 films with Garbo tonight,the first before was "Queen Christine",magic!

[MrPogle]

Thanks for posting this. One of my fave movie nights in my city about ten or so years ago was seeing this on the big screen in an old 1920s movie palace we have here in SF. I like the German version, too. She says something like "Ich bin halb tod" in this world-weary voice. (But don't quote me on the German; it's been years and my German itself is halb tod.)