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* A Woman of Affairs: Greta Garbo's Lesbian Past (USA 1990)
* Stand-ins (USA 1997)
* American Erotic TV film (Unknown, USA mid 90s)
* Death Becomes her (USA 1992)
* Det Perfekte mord (Norway 1992)
* Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas (Spain 1991)
* La Divina (USA 1989)
* Adam & Yves (USA 1974)
* MGM's The Big Parade of Comedy (USA 1964)
* Garabatos Greta Garbo (Spain 1944)
* The Match King (USA 1932)
* It Happened in Hollywood (USA 1937)

A Woman of Affairs : Greta Garbo's Lesbian Past (USA 1990)

This was a 90 minutes lecture by Mary Wings with historian Eric Garber.

In 1993, the lesbian novelist Mary Wings made a touching "Garbo tribute" with her friend Eric Garber, who had recently died of an AIDS-related illness. With clips from her best films and material from other sources, this look back at her career will attempt to begin an open and honest reevaluation of the public and private lives of one of the screen's brightest and most intriguing stars...

Garbo's lesbianism has been one of the best-kept Hollywood secrets during her life; now, after her death, it's already started to generate exciting posthumous speculation and publication.

Gay and lesbian historians have long been aware of Garbo's affairs; documentation can now be revealed without threat of litigation. With clips from her best films and material from other sources, this look back at her career will attempt to begin an open and honest reevaluation of the public and private lives of one of the screen's brightest and most intriguing stars.

Among the sources included, we'll be presenting segments from Garbo's lover Mercedes de Acosta's 1966 book Here Lies the Heart. She describes their topless vacation in Silver Lake (unexplained photos were published in Oui magazine), and also claims to have been the originator of Queen Christina , Garbo's most famous cross-dressing film.

Many unrealized projects between them included Garbo as Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's story of the same name (with Marilyn Monroe as a young girl ruined by Dorian!). Other information includes Louise Brooks' confession to her biographer that she and Garbo spent the night together. Even her gaze, tells Brooks, "was intense and eloquent."

New revelations about Garbo will not leave her in the shadowy realm of innuendo for much longer.

Mary Wings

Producer: Garber, Eric, and Mary Wings
More Info: 90 minutes, b/w video, English language
Distributor/Studio: Mary Wings
Alternate title: A woman of affairs - The Life of Greta Garbo

More Info   HERE!

Thanks to RubyRed

American Erotic TV film (Unknown, USA mid 90s)

This was some kind of a soft erotic Film for USA TV.I hadly have infos. All I know is that the leading woman was a Garbo look-a-like or a woman who thinks she is Garbo.

Anyway, I'm trying to find out more.

Death Becomes her (USA 1992)

Death Becomes Her is a 1992 black comedy fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis. It won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Helen (Goldie Hawn), a writer, and Madeline (Meryl Streep), an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen's fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown, Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline.

Both rivals have secretly drunk a miracle cure for aging; they accidentally discover, when each tries to eliminate the other, that they have become immortal and that "life" will never be the same again.

Actress Bonnie Cahoon is playing Garbo in the big party scene. In the film, Greta was also one of the secret people who drunk a miracle cure for aging. Its quite funny.

Bruce Willis, a Andy Warhol/ Marilyn Monroe Double and Bonnie Cahoon as "Garbo"

Available on DVD. See   HERE!

Det Perfekte mord (Norway 1992)

Also known as The Perfect Murder. Directed by Eva Isaksen. The female lead character believes to be Garbo, or rather the characters portrayed by Garbo.

Thanks to Scott Lord for the infos. More  HERE!

Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas (Spain 1991)

This is a 14 minutes film by Cecilia Barriga.

In this witty, luminous tape Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich star in the roles of their lives—cast as lovers by Chilean video artist Barriga.

Queen Christina meets the Scarlet Empress ; Anna Karenina and Blonde Venus transcend tragedy. This beguiling tape links the queens of the silver screen through motifs such as the cigarette and a circuitry of meaningful gazes and gestures.

Clips from their signature roles are remounted in silent film style vignettes to tell a burgeoning tale of desire and destiny.

The film was shown on many gay/lesbian festivals such as:

 Montreal Women's Film and Video Festival

 Feminale Women's Film Festival in Germany

 NY Int'l Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film.

More Info Info  HERE!

La Divina (USA 1989)

This is a  45 Minute long poetic biopic on Greta Garbo's rise to fame and subsequent disillusionment with the Hollywood machine.

Christopher Renstrom stars as John Gilbert and Michelle Sullivan as Greta and was directed by Brooke Dammkoehler.

 
Michelle Sullivan as Garbo

The film was made and premiered in New York City at the Film Forum in  17th of Nov. 1989.  It was never on TV.   It is a 45 minute black & white film which chronicles Garbo's rise to stardom in a more abstract and symbolic way--a more semiotic approach. More Info   HERE!

Some trivia:
 Sullivan was sick as dog during the shoot with a bad  cold.

 The producer on the film Christine Vachon and assistant director Todd Haynes are now quite famous.

 Michelle stopped acting years ago and  now she is a documentary film producer. Find out more about her work  HERE!

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Find out more about Michelle Sullivan's work   HERE!

Thanks to Michelle Sullivan

Adam & Yves (USA 1974)

This is an Gay Male porn film. It contains what may be the last film footage of Greta Garbo used in a commercial film. Her scene was filmed from a high angle as she was on one of her famous New York walks.

The footage is brief. If you're a Garbo fan this is an interesting piece of film to see. Difficult to find – it was apparently available on video tape at one time.

   
Garbo walking

An article about the film:
Sometimes, reviewing sections of some publications, we discover details like this one.....  In a recent film and filming page of questions and answers they informed about the curriculum of Peter of Rome, a specialist in gay erotic films, with a series of shorts films group together, they use them for the first time to premiere them as a feature film. The erotic films of Peter of Rome, in 1973, one of them Hot Pants, was elected as the best in the Wet Dreams Festival in Amsterdan in 1971. (due to a great selection of this kind of films The Wet Films Festival was named).

Since then, Peter of Rome, filmed the feature films, Adam and Ives, The Destroying Angel. In the first mentioned, Adam and Ives , there's been a surprising and unknow fact that Garbo makes her comeback in films after 35 years of absence. Peter de Roma was lucky of film her walking by 1st. Avenue, New York, and this take is in the final cut of the feature film.

More Info  HERE!

Thanks to Greg and Luca

MGM's The Big Parade of Comedy (USA 1964)

A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to the 1940. A Ninotchka sequence is shown. Available on Video.

The Match King (USA 1932)

The character of Marta Molnar is based on Greta. For the Film, Warner tried to loan out Garbo from MGM.

See more Info  HERE!

It Happened in Hollywood (USA 1937)

This is a little comedy with a brilliant gimmick. Some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the time (1937) make brief appearances in this film, including Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.

Now here's the gimmick: all of those big stars are played in this film by their own stand-ins, the wanna-be actors and actresses who had full-time employment in the Hollywood studios but who only kept working by copying the physical appearance of a better-known actor or actress and following that actor from one film role to the next.