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Greta Garbo

An MGM icon whose screen presence could turn reserve, ambiguity, and stillness into spectacle.

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Garbo’s transition from silent film to sound helped define the mystique of the international movie star in the studio era.

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Films in the collection

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1930 · Drama

Anna Christie

Garbo’s celebrated first talking picture, adapted from Eugene O’Neill.

1932 · Drama

Grand Hotel

MGM’s all-star ensemble intertwines guests and staff inside a luxurious Berlin hotel.

1933 · Historical drama

Queen Christina

Garbo plays Sweden’s seventeenth-century monarch in a romanticized drama of duty and private desire.

1939 · Romantic comedy

Ninotchka

Garbo plays a stern Soviet envoy disarmed by Paris in Lubitsch’s political romantic comedy.