Biography: Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. For most of her career, she was the highest-paid actor or actress at MGM, making her for many years its "premier prestige star." Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and in 1954, she was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances". In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1905
Deathday: April 15, 1990
Popularity:
1975-10-09
Overview: Running order of guests: 1. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (opening credits) 2. ABBA - Mamma Mia 3. Merit Hemmingson 4. Sylvia Vrethammar 5. ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 6. Björn Skifs 7. Lill Lindfors 8. ABBA - So Long 9. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (closing credits)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-09
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1939-11-23
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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1929-02-23
Overview: A prince in J... tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
Popularity:
1931-01-31
Overview: The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
Popularity:
1937-10-22
Overview: A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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1929-11-15
Overview: An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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1933-12-26
Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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1925-03-01
Overview: In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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1932-05-25
Overview: Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-25
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1931-12-26
Overview: A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
Popularity:
1928-12-15
Overview: Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-15
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1969-11-06
Overview: Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-06
Popularity:
1930-02-21
Overview: Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-21
Popularity:
1936-12-26
Overview: Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-26
Popularity:
1993-10-24
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
Popularity:
1926-12-25
Overview: When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
Popularity:
1924-03-09
Overview: Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-03-09
Popularity:
2012-02-04
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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1929-05-25
Overview: An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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1934-11-23
Overview: The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
Popularity:
1935-08-30
Overview: In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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1949-01-01
Overview: A screen test for a planned adaptation of Balzac's The Duchess Of Langelais, which was never made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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1930-08-20
Overview: A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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1941-12-31
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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1926-10-03
Overview: A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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1929-07-27
Overview: A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-27
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1927-11-29
Overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-29
Popularity:
1972-01-10
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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1928-08-04
Overview: A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-04
Popularity:
1932-05-28
Overview: Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
Popularity:
2008-03-03
Overview: A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
Popularity:
1931-10-10
Overview: A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-10
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2018-07-27
Overview: A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-27
Popularity:
1926-02-21
Overview: A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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2022-02-25
Overview: A journey through Swedish queer film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-02-25
Popularity:
1928-01-13
Overview: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
Popularity:
1920-12-12
Overview: Mr and Mrs Stockholm visit the Paul U. Bergström (PUB) department store to buy a new wardrobe after their home had previously been destroyed by a fire. They visit different departments, where the future Greta Garbo is one of the models showing outfits for Mrs Stockholm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-12-12
Popularity:
1921-10-07
Overview: In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in the park.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-10-07
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1922-12-25
Overview: Greta Garbo in her first feature "Luffar-Petter" (Petter The Tramp) 1922.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-12-25
Popularity:
1930-12-22
Overview: A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-22
Popularity:
2004-02-03
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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2009-11-29
Overview: We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-29
Popularity:
1961-12-31
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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1935-01-01
Overview: Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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1995-09-10
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
Popularity:
2005-07-17
Overview: An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, plus many of the friends, relatives and associates who came closest to penetrating the lonely star's veil of solitude.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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1990-12-03
Overview: Profile of actress Greta Garbo, narrated by Glenn Close
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-03
Popularity:
2003-04-22
Overview: This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-the-scenes glimpses of how this film was made with interviews by musical director Andre Previn and supporting actress Janis Paige.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-22
Popularity:
2024-11-13
Overview: An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-13
Popularity:
1996-09-30
Overview: Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-30
Popularity:
1931-09-18
Overview: Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-09-18
Popularity:
1929-08-31
Overview: The world's most famous Swede in 1929 is undoubtedly Greta Garbo. Here the photographer has taken her on a boat departing Gothenburg as she returns to Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1929-08-31
Popularity:
1986-01-01
Overview: Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrated by Bibi Andersson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Popularity:
1937-08-27
Overview: Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
Popularity:
1939-05-28
Overview: An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-28
Popularity:
1940-05-29
Overview: This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-29
Popularity:
2003-05-06
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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1976-05-16
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
Popularity:
1940-10-24
Overview: This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-24
Popularity:
2010-10-08
Overview: The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film clips from the 1910s and 20s. Sigrid is played by eight different stars from her era, and she also plays herself. Sigrid Holmquist was born in Borås, Sweden and her stubborn spirit led her to become a movie star in Scandinavia and Hollywood before retiring from the movies in 1926. An experimental film project.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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1974-08-01
Overview: An American in Paris meets a young Frenchman who likes to mix sex play with a complicated mind game based on scenes from famous films.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
Popularity:
2007-05-23
Overview: Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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1964-09-02
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
Popularity:
2009-07-02
Overview: This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-02
Popularity:
2001-09-04
Overview: Runs through Greta Garbo's life and films in chronological order in an attempt to reveal the 'real' Garbo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
Popularity:
1921-03-14
Overview: Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-03-14
Popularity:
1922-10-02
Overview: The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the elegant guests is deprived of her jewelry.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-10-02
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1988-03-08
Overview: One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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1963-02-10
Overview: Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-10
Popularity:
1991-03-19
Overview: Cecilia Barriga’s culty video montage tells the story of two queens who fall in love, unwittingly played by Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Clipped from their most iconic works, the Chilean born video artist manipulates scenes from the legendary actresses to turn two of the most well known Hollywood starlets in film history into a silent-film style lesbian fantasy. Barriga drives the narrative using common motifs such as the cigarette and the one-eyed glance from beneath a wide brimmed hat, motifs which are familiar to us, but recontextualized within a queer narrative. Major points for including a rainmaker in the soundtrack.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-19
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1922-01-01
Overview: In this promotional film, Greta points at the town of Malmö on a wall map. Greta Garbo's third promotional film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
Popularity:
1982-05-21
Overview: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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