GRETA GARBO in german Anna Christie the whiskey scene

Anna Christie Garbo's first talking film where, she said herself that she preferred the german over the english version.

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• anna
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• whiskey

[jack887]

Garbo said she favored the German version over the English one. If you watch both, you can see big differences in the way she portrays Anna.

[HolyEffy]

Greta garbo is my life! thanks for this faboulous video! I've only the english and italian version of it and I've never saw this in german..I love her voice!....I love EVERYTHING about her!

[DiabolicalAngel]

Sorry but Marie Dressler is a much funnier and more convincing drunk than Salka Viertel :P

[DiabolicalAngel]

Jack- Makes sense. She had better command of German than English.

[DiabolicalAngel]

Nobeester you are SO right! But even today, we are very uptight about sexuality here. Greta looks more like a former whore here than she did in the American version (Look at the makeup, I mean come on). Whereas in the US version, she's dressed like a "normal" citizen. Having said that, the German doesn't quite fit the storyline- she says she's come from Minnesota and what are the chances of one a)speaking german in minnesota, wandering into a random bar in NY and finding another german speaker?

[MrSKINFLICK]

@ClareBElsey:I read that she insisted herself on doing the synchro in German+also must admit that she learned it so well during her one year stay in the film studios Babelsberg in the silent movie era -i can hear no Swedish accent but rather a North German Saxon slight accent many North Germans can have when they turn to high German language.I didn´t even know the movie before+watched it all just before on first German public channel after"Queen Christine"was shown - her unsurpassed master role.

[ClareBElsey]

@jack887 definitely, she looks more assertive int hit one than the english one... and even though I understand her swedish accent perfectly, the german sounds more natural... next time I am told off for speaking german with a nordic lilt, and told "you can't" I will say "yes I can, and have seen it... it's fine, really!" ;)

BUT EVEN UNDERSTANDING THE ENGLISH ONE I WAS LIKE... WHA...?! =S

(they should have let her do more in german... )

[MattTheSaiyan]

This is...oddly amusing. Wouldn't mind seeing the whole thing on DVD or somethin.

[dramaindulged]

She was sooooo talented- what an inspiration!! :)

[Slowlondon]

What about the whole movie ;) ???

[Nobeester]

I don't speak a word of German but I prefer the German version over the American. The Europeans weren't as squeamish about portraying people more realistically than Hollywood did. If you played a whore, you looked and sounded like a whore, not like a repentant sinner from a revival meeting.

[suzylux]

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