Cinematic Sinema: ‘The Greta Garbo of Congress’
Background: Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film star of the silent era. Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), brought her to Hollywood in 1925. With Garbo’s first “talkie” film, Anna Christie (1930), MGM marketers enticed the public with the tagline “Garbo talks!” Garbo’s most famous movie quote was delivered in the 1932 … Read more