Greta Garbo was a beautiful and talented actress. She played the strict Bolshevik with an expressionless and cold face. Then, when she succumbed to the love of a man and the pleasures of Capitalism, she was her gorgeous and seductive self. … [Read more...]
Ninotchka~Greta Garbo 1939~II
The prologue for the classic 1939 Greta Garbo film reads, “This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm - and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid!” As … [Read more...]
Ninotchhka~Greta Garbo 1939~I
Thanks to my son-in-law in Atlanta, I watched the 1939 film “Ninotchka” starring the famous Greta Garbo. What a treat, so funny. Set in the pre WWII Paris, three goofy Bolsheviks come from Moscow to sell jewels taken from a famous Grand Duchess and … [Read more...]