Garbo Talks

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Garbo Talks
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Produced by	Burtt Harris Elliott Kastner
Written by	Larry Grusin
Starring	Anne Bancroft Ron Silver Carrie Fisher Catherine Hicks Steven Hill
Music by	Cy Coleman
Cinematography	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editing by	Andrew Mondshein
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	October 12, 1984
Running time	103 min.
Language	English
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Garbo Talks is a 1984 film directed by Sidney Lumet. The movie stars Anne Bancroft as a terminally ill woman who asks her son, Gilbert, to help her fulfill her last wish: to meet Greta Garbo. As her son, played by Ron Silver, carries out his search for Garbo, he confronts his relationship with his wife and an interest in a struggling actress.

The movie was written by Larry Grusin and stars Bancroft, Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks and Steven Hill. Bancroft was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in the film.

Supporting roles include: Howard Da Silva and Dorothy Loudon, a down-on-his-luck paparazzo and his agent, Harvey Fierstein, a gay man that Gilbert meets on the Fire Island ferry, and Hermione Gingold, a nearly-senile actress who once worked with the elusive Garbo.

Broadway songwriter Betty Comden plays Garbo, and her writing partner Adolph Green has a cameo.

Greta Garbo's low, husky voice and Swedish accent was first heard on screen in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1930), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks".

[edit] External links

• Garbo Talks at the Internet Movie Database

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