FAMOUS STAR

Evening Star, Issue 22379, 1 July 1936, Page 13

FAMOUS STAR

GRETA GARBO FOR EMPIRE Ten years ago a timid, bewildered Swedish, girl—Greta Louvisa Gustafson —began her first American screen role _ at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. This same woman, now known as Greta Garbo and said to be the most discussed woman in the world, will be seen .at the Empire on Friday in her tenth anniversary picture. The tenth anniversary picture—David O. Selznick’s production of Tolstoy’s immortal 1 Anna Karenina ’—is also Garbo’s twentieth picture for M-G-M, a consistent average of two films yearly for the same studio, since her first arrival in America. The new picture is claimed to be the nlost dazzling, colourful, and dramatic production of. her entire career. The opening scenes represented the St. Petersburg railway station as it appeared 60 years ago. Behind the cameras were the same technical crews that have worked in most of the Garbo films—headed by William Daniels, Garbo’s cameraman, who has photographed 19 of her productions. The supporting cast is one of the largest ever assembled. Heading it are Fredric March, her co-star; Freddie Bartholomew, who played the title role in ‘ David Copperfield ’; Maureen O’Sullivan, May Robson, Basil Rathbone, and 34 other wellknown players. The settings, depicting Imperial Russia at the height of its splendour, were designed by Cedric Gibbons and his staff.