tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post74176843095274638..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: Best Actress Of 1932-33 (Drama): Greta Garbo (Queen Christina)Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-55118341465149654972023-07-11T21:09:17.623-04:002023-07-11T21:09:17.623-04:00Thank you. Nice piece.Thank you. Nice piece.Scott Lord on Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film,https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987400831204562507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-72665666740440357972010-11-04T03:51:42.317-04:002010-11-04T03:51:42.317-04:00Great piece on Garbo. The Queen of the Silver Scr...Great piece on Garbo. The Queen of the Silver Screen in my eyes! Your work is phenomenal. As always I will spread the love. <br />J.S. Lambertj.s. lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11008033066018366268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-24243693544729297942010-08-15T19:08:40.706-04:002010-08-15T19:08:40.706-04:00True, she is absolutely amazing in "Flesh and...True, she is absolutely amazing in "Flesh and the Devil". It is a tricky part but Garbo never falls into the tramp of playing Felicitas like a typical one-dimensional vamp. Instead she invests her character with sensuality, passion and even a certain vulnerability, strength and intelligence. She definitely reinvented the image of woman and of acting on film with this part and her subsequent ones.nakisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-18393536453115894382010-08-06T10:12:53.835-04:002010-08-06T10:12:53.835-04:00Garbo did deserve to win the oscar several times.
...<i>Garbo did deserve to win the oscar several times.</i><br /><br />And if they'd had the Oscars in 1926, she would have deserved one for <i>Flesh and the Devil</i>, maybe my favorite of her silent performances.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-111151620717715772010-08-06T03:57:28.444-04:002010-08-06T03:57:28.444-04:00Garbo did deserve to win the oscar several times. ...Garbo did deserve to win the oscar several times. "Queen Christina" is definitely one of these times and also without doubt for her incomparable "Camille". And she was not even nominated for some of her great performances in films like "Woman of Affairs", "Anna Karenina", "The painted veil" or "As you desire me". One of the reasons she did nto win was in my opinion the fact that she refused to play the typical Hollywood game. She did give everything she had on the screen and kept the private woman for herself. No scandals, no silly interviews or public appearences no memoirs about her love affairs, just that magical figure on the screen. The rest was silence.Nakishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889077245041696598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-37098466764368314622010-08-04T21:04:58.338-04:002010-08-04T21:04:58.338-04:00I think the Academy pretty much blew it all around...I think the Academy pretty much blew it all around that year, except maybe for Charles Laughton in <i>The Private Life Of Henry VIII</i>.<br /><br />Even more amazing is that Garbo <i>never</i> won an Oscar. It's one thing to blow it in a given year, but to blow it for an entire career? That takes a special kind of talent.<br /><br />She did win two best actress awards from the New York Film Critics, for <i>Anna Karenina</i> and <i>Camille</i>, but of course it's the Oscars we remember.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-40866860255483968952010-08-04T20:51:07.379-04:002010-08-04T20:51:07.379-04:00Garbo should have been nominated for the Academy f...Garbo should have been nominated for the Academy for Queen Christina. She was absolutely genius as well as breathtakingly beautiful. Only Garbo could have played that 'memorizing the room' scene without being silly. What a magical movie moment. And to think, they almost cut it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-22531931021730469242010-08-03T15:21:05.047-04:002010-08-03T15:21:05.047-04:00There are movies that I like and others that seduc...There are movies that I like and others that seduced me, well Queen Christine is among the latter. The scene of the inn is a film song. The final look an embarrassment.<br />You said very great actresses but the choice of Greta Garbo is fully justified. Perhaps some discordant voices had been silenced long had he been born in the U.S..<br />An excellent post made me relive a great movie.FATHER_CAPRIOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388522679346433899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-64382639384929527032010-08-03T14:01:35.302-04:002010-08-03T14:01:35.302-04:00True. In each film she reveals something which tot...True. In each film she reveals something which totally belongs to her, one would say we see her very soul on the screen. This is most evident in her great parts during the sound period, like "Queen Christina", "Camille", or even the neglected "Painted veil", but also her great silents especially the extraordinary "Woman of Affairs". She is a unique case indeed, a paradox of contrasts, an original in all accounts. I love Cary Grant too, but in a way unlike Garbo he seemed to be a bit like a victim of his perfect image on film whereas Garbo simply lived her life as am actress and as a woman the way she wanted to live them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-43905030383935247032010-08-03T09:36:59.556-04:002010-08-03T09:36:59.556-04:00You know, I said at the beginning of the essay tha...You know, I said at the beginning of the essay that Garbo was a self-invention, but one of the things I find so interesting about her is how close the image on the screen wound up being to the woman herself -- fiercely independent, hungry to escape and in the end, alone and apparently content to be so. Cary Grant was also a self-invention, but the man he invented and ultimately became was light years away from the man he started as, the roughneck, working class kid. Nothing wrong with that, he's one of my very favorite actors, but he was more like Don Draper on <i>Mad Men</i> -- he invented a new self to conceal and improve the old self.<br /><br />Despite the masks she wore, Garbo wound up being one of the most honest and revealing actresses ever to appear on screen. A great performance in the middle of a great career.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-15018920651666476272010-08-03T07:57:11.385-04:002010-08-03T07:57:11.385-04:00Wonderful description and review of "Queen Ch...Wonderful description and review of "Queen Christina" starring the incomparable Greta Garbo, an actress I worship and consider as the very greatest of all time. In this film Garbo dominates every single frame and defines the character and the film with her performance and personnality. In my opinion this is not only the greatest performance by an actress of the 1932-1933 period but also the definitive feminist portrait of all times. Have we ever seen such a powerful portrayal of a strong, intelligent woman in films? What is hard to believe is that the great Garbo not only did she not win the oscar for "Queen Christinq", but she was not even nominated for her performance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com