Adultery on film was alive and well in the 1920's and Greta Garbo became its face. And even though the characters she played didn't always travel the moral high road, we love her as much today as the movie going public did back then.
History has shown that sex sells, and watching her silent work proves that the dangerous woman she often played is as timely and sexy as ever. Whether it be a movie, opera, the theatre or real life, human nature tends to attract itself toward the dangerous love affair and Greta Garbo became the poster child of that behavior.
Her best and most remembered silent film is Flesh and the Devil (1926) where the now legendary on-camera attrraction between her and actor John Gilbert continued long after the camera's stopped rolling. And even after she left Gilbert in real life, the chemistry this couple had still continued to burn up the screen in the pictures Love (1927) and A Woman of Affairs (1928).
Greta Garbo is mostly known today for being a recluse in her later years and of course her sound pictures, Ninotchka and Anna Karenina. However, a trip back to when motion pictures were young, and not so innocent, proves that the silent era could do, and did do, just about anything movies can do today. And if one is fortunate enough to catch a Garbo silent - make time afterwards for either a cold shower or a cigarette.
Her best and most remembered silent film is Flesh and the Devil (1926) where the now legendary on-camera attrraction between her and actor John Gilbert continued long after the camera's stopped rolling. And even after she left Gilbert in real life, the chemistry this couple had still continued to burn up the screen in the pictures Love (1927) and A Woman of Affairs (1928).
Greta Garbo is mostly known today for being a recluse in her later years and of course her sound pictures, Ninotchka and Anna Karenina. However, a trip back to when motion pictures were young, and not so innocent, proves that the silent era could do, and did do, just about anything movies can do today. And if one is fortunate enough to catch a Garbo silent - make time afterwards for either a cold shower or a cigarette.
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