Una vera Dea , Divina !!! La più bella rumba mai vista , ballare con questa classe , leggerezza , sensualità mai volgare , una bellezza sfacciata , che fa , sparire tutto il resto , sofisticata quel tanto che basta , con un sorriso , che stupendo , incredibile , che illumina tutto e tutti !!! GARBO !!! NON SI PUÒ SFUGGIRE A TANTA , TANTA , TANTA , MERAVIGLIA !!! ROSY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌟🌟🌟🌟❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've reading more and more about Garbo for the past 3 years. It's now been nearly 90 years since she hit her peak in the 30s and still, there's never been anyone like her.
Love this. Yes, it may not be her best film, but it's still so much fun. Really wish she had made more films after this. And for someone who wasn't a natural dancer, I think she did great!
I have a book about Garbo and her movies and in it, the author says this movie was a flop and roundly criticized by the critics. I especially remember they said one nasty critic wrote; "Its almost as embarrassing as seeing your mother drunk!" Seemingly they were saying the director made Garbo appear too hip, contemporary and a free soul and that did not fit in with the exotic nature of her previous roles and persona. I have never understood the criticism. Actors aren't supposed to be the same person in every picture unless they have no acting talent.
I absolutely agree with you about how a talentet actor should be versatile. But Garbo was in a category of her own. And had for years been surrounded with an alluring aura of mystique. She was distant, private and out of reach - which only added to the fascination of her. Now suddenty they saw a woman stripped of all mystery and usual enchantment - and they came to see Garbo - not an equivalent to Myrna Loy, or Ginger Rogers. Also, at that time, the biggest Hollywood stars were much more cut up in the images the filmindustri created for them. On a lesser scale I think John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper would also be in trouble, if they played completely out of character :)
Very nice . Thanks for the video . Greta in her younger years was very beautiful . However she was always elegant and one of the top greatest actresses their ever was if not the best . RIP Greta .
This is one of the reasons why I enjoy dancing; because it's fun. I remeber when they showed a clip of this in the film "That's Entertainment Part II". I also loved when Robert Taylor sang "Felling Your Feeling". This old movies are just fantastic.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN AN ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE TIME TO HAVE LIVED IN THOSE DAYS WHEN MOST PEOPLE WERE CLASSY, STYLISH, EDUCATED, BEAUTIFUL, COURTEOUS, GREAT MANNERS ETC. MOVIES, MUSIC, TV. IT WAS ALL SUPERB. GARBO, DAVIS, LEIGH, CRAWFORD, TURNER, HAYWORTH, LEIGH, DIETRICH.ETC.
Garbo shows that she could deliver funny dialogue naturally and in a totally unforced manner. That is the essence of a comedienne. You catch glimmers of her dry humor in many of her films. This, along with Ninotchka were her only comedies butunfortunately this film was not financial success in the states. Europe, where her films always made money , was closed to the US film market because of the war so the studio, looking at the numbers decided to let her ride out her contract.
Toutes ces vidéos de ces époques révolues me font rêver Ce qui ne m'empêche pas d'Aimé ? D'Aimé ! Led Zeppelin Moussorgski Est ce que c'est grave docteur
Saw Garbo twice in Manhattan . . . was in the 1970's . . . back then there was an unspoken thought - "you know you're a dyed-in-the-wool Manhattanite when you've seen Garbo" - didn't matter if you moved there from Peoria - and wow, she was elegant. Needless to say, those who recognized her left her alone.
@@akrenwinkle No, I most certainly wasn't, you hate-mongering sycophant. Why don't you figure out how to recognize humor, satire, wit, irony when you encounter it? Of course, you wouldn't want to be late for your next Trump rally, would you, where you can commingle with your fellow bullies & other unwashed, abusive pieces of gutter trash. Are YOU twelve, you pathetic d-bag?? Shouldn't you busy yourself re-electing Matt Gaetz instead of harassing and web-stalking total strangers?
This certainly showed that Garbo' was not always the dour personality she portrayed in her many earlier movies she looked as though she wás really enjoying being a modern lively amuseing woman and a good sense of rhythm 🤗
And you should have heard the dialogue between her and Constance Bennett at the table...lots of sexual inuendo and coded references to gold diggers..I was shocked that Garbo would say such lines. But oh it was so much fun.
The studio killed the mystic. They made her too common and ordinary. She knew it was over. But, she had a good run and has been immortalized in film. Not a bad way to end. How many of us can say that?
She did a screen test for a new proposed film eight years later that never materialized. She must have thought that there was still some wind in her sails.
@@jackanthony976 Garbo signed a $200,000 contract in 1948 ($2.1 million in 2018) with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced _Queen Christina_ , to shoot a picture based on French novelist Honoré Balzac's _La Duchesse de Langeais_ , a tale of a beautiful, worldly woman who finally takes a nun's vows and dies at 29. Max Ophüls was slated to adapt and direct. She made several screen tests, learned the script, and arrived in Rome in the summer of 1949 to shoot the picture and accepted a $25,000 ($263,000 in 2018) salary for this preliminary work. However, the financing failed to materialize, and the project was abandoned. The screen tests-the last time Garbo stepped in front of a movie camera-were thought to have been lost for 41 years until they were re-discovered in 1990 by film historians Leonard Maltin and Jeanine Basinger. Parts of the footage were included in the 2005 TCM documentary _Garbo_ . In 1952, she initially had an interest in playing the title role in the film version of Daphne du Maurier's novel _My Cousin Rachel_ , but she later changed her mind and declined the project.
@@johannacannata1090 Sydney Guilaroff was the hairstylist. He worked for more than 40 years at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios on more than 1,000 films. He was instrumental in crafting many of the hairstyles that became the signature looks for numerous film stars.
Anders Liljevall It's apparent she had a sense of fun & spontaneity to her personality ; which I would think only added an element of versatility to her Aura.
NL77, New Combinations For Future Films To Never Have Happened. 1. Astaire and Garbo Dancing. 2. Teaming Garbo with Bennett yet again a film or two. 3. Garbo with Grant, Cooper, Powell, Wayne,Power, McMurray, and possibly Bogart and Cagney, and The Ultimate Marlene Deitrich. RCJ/LEO
I read somewhere that Greta did't want to learn the moves for this dance. XD!!! John Gilbert was such a fool! He ALMOST had her! But he let his drinking get in the way, he once pointed a loaded revolver at her..yeah good job dude, way to make a woman like you!
I forgot where I read it, Garbo told a friend "They (the studio) are killing me." She knew the awful quality of this film as she was doing it. Even the costumes weren't made for her, as they always had been... just off the MGM rack. I've seen it a few times over the years on Turner Classics. The big question is why she agreed to do it. The film before, "Ninotchka," was a hit. Ironically, Norma Shearer's career ended with the terrible "We Were Dancing," which, like "Two-Faced Woman" was meant to reinvent and update its star.
Glad you mentioned We Were Dancing. I barely made it through the first scene ( and this is life long Shearer fan).she looked great but that wasn't enough
@@jamesryan6008 I'm a Shearer fan, too. I wouldn't call her forgotten, but let's say under-appreciated. You can't read anything about her without the usual reminder that she was the boss's wife. So what if she was? She was damn good. Also the tiresome references to her small eyes that seemed to be crossed all the time. You'd think she was Ben Turpin-- if you know about him.
Two Faced Woman was a lot of fun to watch especially the entire sequence in the nightclub. I couldn't believe how edgy the dialogue was between Constance Bennett and Garbo in the nightclub...lots of sexual innuendos and coded references to loose women and gold diggers.
@@Jack-ke5uv Not fun for me. A studio could turn Dietrich into a more American-style 40s goodtime gal, but not Garbo. When you really admire someone, love her from afar as millions did, you don't want her to be embarrassed.
"George Cukor is partly to blame. The director had done some inspired work on "Camille"; but here is content to put Garbo through her athletic paces, doll her up in a Phyllis Diller hairdo, paste a Gloria Swanson smile on her face, and let her drift - then sink. It's sad and ironic that a director so justly famed for eliciting great performances from great ladies should, within a year, preside over the demolition of Irving Thalberg's two grand dames: Garbo here and Norma Shearer in another feeble comedy, "Her Cardboard Lover." Neither star ever made another film." - Richard Corliss, "Greta Garbo," Pyramid Books, 1974
+Dave dvlaries I think her career was becoming to decline because at that time the pin-up fever was taking off, and they were trying to change Garbo's image, by trying to turn her into a pin-up. This, obviously, had nothing to do with her style, which was the total opposite. The film was not a hit, and she was already tired, so she decided to end her movie career.
I like the film and Garbo in it. However, I do agree that the film could use some improvement. But remember this, film was badly compromised because of certain demands that the Legion of Decency imposed on MGM. The Legion of Decency demanded that certain scenes be cut because they violated the morals clause. Garbo was then asked to reshoot some scenes to appease the Legion of Decency. Garbo refused stating that the story would be compromised if MGM caved in to the Legion of Decency. MGM caved fearing a blacklash and therefore deleted and reshot some scenes without Garbo making the story seem somewhat contrived and dated. Even with all the concessions made to please the Legion of Decency the film was still condemned by the Legion of Decency which kept many religious people away from the film. However I still think the film has a lot to offer for Garbo and Constance Bennett fans.
I don't know what you mean when you say "George Cukor is to blame. Blame for what? I loved this movie with Garbo and Constance Bennet as her nemesis. I have it also on DVD.
You seem to forget, America's idea of female leads had change. At about this time, an unknown girl renamed Marilyn Monroe arrived on the scene No market left for what had been termed a "Garbo picture". Other somewhat "mature" actresses like Irene Dunne also plotted their exits Neither the general public nor her core audience wanted to her this way.
Well thats true, but then you had women like Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene dietrich that were out and proud bisexuals and that didn't really adversely affect their careers at all (especially in Marlene's case..she went on to make film from like what..the 20s to the 1980s?) But Greta came from a different culture, they took her out of Sweden, but they couldn't take Sweden out of her!
The 1930s and 1940s' Hollywood was a true God's gift to mankind. That generation was the best, they were all geniuses. No one will ever compare to them - that's humanly impossible.
Love this scene. One issue I have is that while Adrian designed a gorgeous sequined gown for Constance Bennett ( who looks great) he has Garbo in a cheap dress with absolutely nothing to recommend it. And was intentional. MGM felt that audiences couldn't relate to her so she was to be deglamorized. Adrian was so disgusted by this order that shortly afterwards he left the studio. I another note, her dance partner was Robert Alton, who was the choreographer.
The quote attributed to the disillusioned Adrian was "They were trying to turn her into a 'sweater girl.' When you kill the mystery about Garbo, you kill Garbo." The glory days of the 30s were changing. WWII audiences wanted fresh faces and MGM's Louis Mayer provided them (Hedy Lamarr, July Garland, Lana Turner, Greer Garson). Of the old guard, the ones who had begun before or at the dawn of sound, and all of them Adrian favorites, Garbo and Norma Shearer walked away from their careers, Harlow was dead, and Crawford would soon reinvent herself at Warners.
I don't see any evidence of Garbo being a sweater girl in this film. She was her usual classy glamorous self but with a touch of satire and comedy. Garbo could never be a sweater girl if she tried and I think MGM knew that.
JACK ANTHONY you misunderstood. They were TRYING to turn Garbo into a sweater girl but she refused and rightly so. She was way too great an actress to succumb to that. That's how Hollywood rolls: it's a commercial and industrial conveyor belt to manufacture looks and fads and styles. The Garbo persona was from another more innocent time and the time was up in this picture. Unfortunately, these studio bosses were rather short-sighted because all they needed to do was make some other pictures that capitalised on her uniqueness while at the same time rolling out their pin ups and sweater girls. It doesn't always have to be one or the other. Many of those studio people and bosses were short sighted, despite their genius in other areas.
James Ryan that black dress she's wearing and her whole look is dreadful. So ordinary that it comes across as sabotage to her. They did the same thing to get rid of John Gilbert: they sabotaged and doctored his voice in his first talkie to make him sound high pitched and nasally. So they would literally be prepared to lose money on certain pictures to get rid of certain stars they no longer wanted to cultivate or sell. Hollywood was like a cut-price supermarket where certain goods were discounted and others discontinued. The neckline on the dress is remarkably low-cut for those times, and I'm surprised to see Garbo in it. It's unlike her. It is so plunging that it is reminiscent of the plunging Hooker-styles worn today. Her hair clips are absurd and oddly placed, and not at all chic, for such a chic actress, and even her hair has been changed away from the typical bob Garbo look that was her signature coiffure. She looks elderly in this and yet wasn't at all! Despite all that, the dance number is pleasant to watch but also rather sad in this context. Garbo was to retreat into being a recluse following this and to let her looks go and live quietly in Manhattan until she died in 1990. I feel sad that her career still had such a long way to go and with the right directors and scripts she could've easily had an interesting career that would've lasted until the very end. Many other huge stars managed to make transitions into television and so on in their later years. Without smart screenplays and producers that can use the talents of these players properly, this is what happens. Humans are so petty and short-sighted (and dumb) that it is rather sickening often to say one belongs to this race called "human". Garbo was best Garbo when she didn't talk, and didn't dance. She played so many dying or suffering women during her hey day, but the evil MGM suits certainly finished her off with this lemon!
I've seen parts of this movie of the years, but not in its entirety. I adore Constance Bennett ❤ in all her glory. She was probably annoyed with GG in reality.
The original script was excellent. But the Legion of Decency destroyed the film by insisting on the deletion of many scenes that they deemed immoral. At that time the Legion of Decency had great power. The deletion and reshooting of many scenes destroyed the film's edge and believability.
*** Two-Faced Woman is a good romantic comedy, with very fun scenes at the ski resort. Unfortunately, the plot is patchy, has weak dialogues and loses a little bit in New York, where little funny thing happens. The best sequence is the dance of rumba with Garbo cheerful and half awkward, similar to the classic Ninotchka. I found her role as a ski teacher quite adequate. I don't know if she used a stunt double, but she's convincing. She appears particularly beautiful dressed in sportswear and also in a black dress, but some costumes don't value her body and hairstyles don't always live up to the beauty and glamor she used to offer the public. Cary Grant would be the ideal match for Garbo, however, Melvyn Douglas bursts out like the awkward student. I really enjoyed the outcome in the gorge. Overall, the movie serves to amuse, but does not come to impress. I think of this movie with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and directed by Preston Sturges. Sure enough, Garbo's career would be saved. The star has lost some of the brilliance of the last decades. I can't explain why. Maybe because her old, black and white movies are no longer being shown on TV channels. I remember that until the 1970s, she was still very popular and revered as a mysterious and enigmatic icon by movie critics and Hollywood colleagues.
She wanted to have fun. She was tired of being the mysterious woman who had to die..but the film wasnt successful..and because of the war...her overseas audience was gone. So..she decided it was time for her to retire.
World War 2 audiences may have grown weary of Garbo's mystery and glamour as evidenced by Miss Garbo's declining box office receipts in the 5 years preceding Two Faced Woman. MGM and Garbo had no choice but to create a new image if Garbo was to stay in business. Garbo herself stated that she was not that versatile of an actress and therefore found it hard to play anything other than mysterious and glamourous. However, I think Garbo did a fine job in this film and who cares if she wasn't mysteriouos and glamorous in this film....she had done enough of those already.
What film is this? I think she incredible woman. Nothing could stop Garbo............She's so alive free liberal............ I was once was free had no one to answer to..........................Michael Douglass sold all the Lion King Royal codes to foreigners then got mad cause nobody could move.
Love Greta--but let's face it, she's no dancer. They taught her some simple moves. And used a sub (distance shot) in the only challenging move. That's Hollywood!
Hmmm. First of all did you send me a friend request? We should totally be friends. Anyway, I see what you're saying..it might have tarnished the mysterious image. But Greta was molded by the movie makers to appear a certain way. I think it was pretty much an open secret that she liked women, it didn't require her confirmation. The only man I know she loved at some point was John Gilbert. Btw have you heard about the love letters she sent Mimi Pollack her drama school companion in Sweden?
la ultima película de Garbo y la película que fue fracaso por culpa de su Amiga y representante Salka Viertel, eso causo que la Divina dejara para siempre el escenario. por 1941.cuando quizo regresar realmente por 1949 ya era tarde.
La película hubiera sido un éxito si las Ligas de Decencia no se hubieran metido por medio, teniendo que rehacer algunas escenas, lo cual provocó que en algunos aspectos el film quedara incoherente. No hay por qué cargarle a Salka Viertel el muerto.
Igual ella nunca hubiese podido aggionarse a los cambios que se venian... todo iba siendo cada vez mas comercial y superfluo en el mainstream y ella no hubiese cuadrado debido a su magia y misterio...
Garbo tried but was miscast in this film. For the most part Garbo really wasn't suited for comedy. Not even her costumes really flatter her. The supporting cast especially Constance Bennett steals the film.
World War II interfered with her career. This movie was made in 1941 and she was much more popular in Europe than in North America. She decided to sit out the war and maybe come back afterward. But she had difficulty finding a good vehicle and felt her screen test at 44 in 1949 was not good enough to put her back in glamorous roles.
What incredible radiance she had, like sunshine, like no other.
The best most beautiful, delightful, exquisite screen actress of all time. And an extraordinarily lovely woman.
Una vera Dea , Divina !!! La più bella rumba mai vista , ballare con questa classe , leggerezza , sensualità mai volgare , una bellezza sfacciata , che fa , sparire tutto il resto , sofisticata quel tanto che basta , con un sorriso , che stupendo , incredibile , che illumina tutto e tutti !!! GARBO !!! NON SI PUÒ SFUGGIRE A TANTA , TANTA , TANTA , MERAVIGLIA !!! ROSY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌟🌟🌟🌟❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It was absolutely fun watching her-- very humurous. She's excellent.
Garbo is SO cute! I love how she tries to shake her hips like the other lady is doing. She's awesome.
I absolutely LOVED the scene and dance routine 👏🏾👏🏻👏🏽💃🏼
I've reading more and more about Garbo for the past 3 years. It's now been nearly 90 years since she hit her peak in the 30s and still, there's never been anyone like her.
Very good! Great scene! The actor dancing with Garbo is great too!!
Love this. Yes, it may not be her best film, but it's still so much fun. Really wish she had made more films after this. And for someone who wasn't a natural dancer, I think she did great!
She must have hated filming this scene lol
I have a book about Garbo and her movies and in it, the author says this movie was a flop and roundly criticized by the critics. I especially remember they said one nasty critic wrote; "Its almost as embarrassing as seeing your mother drunk!" Seemingly they were saying the director made Garbo appear too hip, contemporary and a free soul and that did not fit in with the exotic nature of her previous roles and persona. I have never understood the criticism. Actors aren't supposed to be the same person in every picture unless they have no acting talent.
I absolutely agree with you about how a talentet actor should be versatile.
But Garbo was in a category of her own.
And had for years been surrounded with an alluring aura of mystique. She was distant, private and out of reach - which only added to the fascination of her.
Now suddenty they saw a woman stripped of all mystery and usual enchantment - and they came to see Garbo - not an equivalent to Myrna Loy, or Ginger Rogers.
Also, at that time, the biggest Hollywood stars were much more cut up in the images the filmindustri created for them. On a lesser scale I think John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper would also be in trouble, if they played completely out of character :)
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Very nice . Thanks for the video . Greta in her younger years was very beautiful . However she was always elegant and one of the top greatest actresses their ever was if not the best . RIP Greta .
This is one of the reasons why I enjoy dancing; because it's fun. I remeber when they showed a clip of this in the film "That's Entertainment Part II". I also loved when Robert Taylor sang "Felling Your Feeling". This old movies are just fantastic.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN AN ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE TIME TO HAVE LIVED IN THOSE DAYS WHEN MOST PEOPLE WERE CLASSY, STYLISH, EDUCATED, BEAUTIFUL, COURTEOUS, GREAT MANNERS ETC. MOVIES, MUSIC, TV. IT WAS ALL SUPERB. GARBO, DAVIS, LEIGH, CRAWFORD, TURNER, HAYWORTH, LEIGH, DIETRICH.ETC.
Excellent film. Especially its unedited version.
Garbo shows that she could deliver funny dialogue naturally and in a totally unforced manner. That is the essence of a comedienne. You catch glimmers of her dry humor in many of her films. This, along with Ninotchka were her only comedies butunfortunately this film was not financial success in the states. Europe, where her films always made money , was closed to the US film market because of the war so the studio, looking at the numbers decided to let her ride out her contract.
Happy Birthday Greta!
she performed this mesmerising dance in that era
thank you I enjoyed very much.
Greata Garbo she's beautiful.
And also very clever.
La Divina stupenda immortale 💔🌌💙
Divina Greta!!!!
As a fan I always avoided this movie because I heard how cringe it is but she looks absolutely amazing and seems like she’s having a great time! ❤️
Stupenda Greta!
SHE WAS ALWAYS MAGICAL AND IN ON THE JOKE
I love the song!
love her!
Toutes ces vidéos de ces époques révolues me font rêver
Ce qui ne m'empêche pas d'Aimé ?
D'Aimé ! Led Zeppelin
Moussorgski
Est ce que c'est grave docteur
Niesamowita. Nie wiem co chcieli od tego filmu krytycy. To jedna z jej najlepszych ról. A scena z tańcem nie do podrobienia. Jedyna w swoim rodzaju
Clapping is dancing.
she is a DIOSA.
Saw Garbo twice in Manhattan . . . was in the 1970's . . . back then there was an unspoken thought - "you know you're a dyed-in-the-wool Manhattanite when you've seen Garbo" - didn't matter if you moved there from Peoria - and wow, she was elegant. Needless to say, those who recognized her left her alone.
Like, wasn't she at Studio 54 with Warhol??
@@collinsy No. I am not a betting gal but I would bet this never happened.
@@collinsy Like, were you 12 when you wrote that?
@@akrenwinkle No, I most certainly wasn't, you hate-mongering sycophant. Why don't you figure out how to recognize humor, satire, wit, irony when you encounter it? Of course, you wouldn't want to be late for your next Trump rally, would you, where you can commingle with your fellow bullies & other unwashed, abusive pieces of gutter trash. Are YOU twelve, you pathetic d-bag?? Shouldn't you busy yourself re-electing Matt Gaetz instead of harassing and web-stalking total strangers?
Cica cioca...😀 🕺🥁💃👏🏻
@DiabolicalAngel Yes, I've always thought that too. Doesn't add up does it. Perhaps she didn't realise just how popular she would become.
amazing.... thank u xxxxxxxx
Great is sooo soo cute!
And so awkward too :)
exquisite mind blowing s k joshi
Well greta am back run for the hills the legions our marching love jimi
This certainly showed that Garbo' was not always the dour personality she portrayed in her many earlier movies she looked as though she wás really enjoying being a modern lively amuseing woman and a good sense of rhythm 🤗
And you should have heard the dialogue between her and Constance Bennett at the table...lots of sexual inuendo and coded references to gold diggers..I was shocked that Garbo would say such lines. But oh it was so much fun.
The studio killed the mystic. They made her too common and ordinary. She knew it was over. But, she had a good run and has been immortalized in film. Not a bad way to end. How many of us can say that?
She did a screen test for a new proposed film eight years later that never materialized. She must have thought that there was still some wind in her sails.
@@jackanthony976 Garbo signed a $200,000 contract in 1948 ($2.1 million in 2018) with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced _Queen Christina_ , to shoot a picture based on French novelist Honoré Balzac's _La Duchesse de Langeais_ , a tale of a beautiful, worldly woman who finally takes a nun's vows and dies at 29. Max Ophüls was slated to adapt and direct. She made several screen tests, learned the script, and arrived in Rome in the summer of 1949 to shoot the picture and accepted a $25,000 ($263,000 in 2018) salary for this preliminary work. However, the financing failed to materialize, and the project was abandoned. The screen tests-the last time Garbo stepped in front of a movie camera-were thought to have been lost for 41 years until they were re-discovered in 1990 by film historians Leonard Maltin and Jeanine Basinger. Parts of the footage were included in the 2005 TCM documentary _Garbo_ .
In 1952, she initially had an interest in playing the title role in the film version of Daphne du Maurier's novel _My Cousin Rachel_ , but she later changed her mind and declined the project.
@@RaymondHngThank you for this information. I never knew of her interest the My Cousin Rachel project.
La D I V I N A bailando para nosotros.. 😍
I love this scene... despite being credit for the end of her career..
It wasnt the scene , it was the hairstyle ... Someone did this to her ...for shame ...
@@johannacannata1090 Sydney Guilaroff was the hairstylist. He worked for more than 40 years at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios on more than 1,000 films. He was instrumental in crafting many of the hairstyles that became the signature looks for numerous film stars.
@@RaymondHng Greta Garbo is my most favorite actress of all .
she was actually quite funny her friends said
Anders Liljevall It's apparent she had a sense of fun & spontaneity to her personality ; which I would think only added an element of versatility to her Aura.
That's glamour...
NL77,
New Combinations For Future
Films To Never Have Happened.
1. Astaire and Garbo Dancing.
2. Teaming Garbo with Bennett
yet again a film or two.
3. Garbo with Grant, Cooper, Powell,
Wayne,Power, McMurray, and possibly Bogart and Cagney,
and The Ultimate Marlene Deitrich.
RCJ/LEO
I love GRETA!!! Can someone please post this movie on youtube?!?! or tell me where to find it because i'd love to see all of greta garbo's movies.
Divina Garbo!!!!!!!!!!!!
They tried turning her into another Constance Bennett it's been said,
just didn't know what to do with her as bother she and the forties arrived.
There's my cousin, Bob Sterling, with GARBO!
"La Chica Choca" (The Girl Crashes) eso fue lo primero que entendí 🤣🤣🤣👍
I read somewhere that Greta did't want to learn the moves for this dance. XD!!!
John Gilbert was such a fool! He ALMOST had her! But he let his drinking get in the way, he once pointed a loaded revolver at her..yeah good job dude, way to make a woman like you!
I forgot where I read it, Garbo told a friend "They (the studio) are killing me." She knew the awful quality of this film as she was doing it. Even the costumes weren't made for her, as they always had been... just off the MGM rack. I've seen it a few times over the years on Turner Classics. The big question is why she agreed to do it. The film before, "Ninotchka," was a hit. Ironically, Norma Shearer's career ended with the terrible "We Were Dancing," which, like "Two-Faced Woman" was meant to reinvent and update its star.
Glad you mentioned We Were Dancing. I barely made it through the first scene ( and this is life long Shearer fan).she looked great but that wasn't enough
@@jamesryan6008 I'm a Shearer fan, too. I wouldn't call her forgotten, but let's say under-appreciated. You can't read anything about her without the usual reminder that she was the boss's wife. So what if she was? She was damn good. Also the tiresome references to her small eyes that seemed to be crossed all the time. You'd think she was Ben Turpin-- if you know about him.
Two Faced Woman was a lot of fun to watch especially the entire sequence in the nightclub. I couldn't believe how edgy the dialogue was between Constance Bennett and Garbo in the nightclub...lots of sexual innuendos and coded references to loose women and gold diggers.
@@Jack-ke5uv Not fun for me. A studio could turn Dietrich into a more American-style 40s goodtime gal, but not Garbo. When you really admire someone, love her from afar as millions did, you don't want her to be embarrassed.
"George Cukor is partly to blame. The director had done some inspired work on "Camille"; but here is content to put Garbo through her athletic paces, doll her up in a Phyllis Diller hairdo, paste a Gloria Swanson smile on her face, and let her drift - then sink. It's sad and ironic that a director so justly famed for eliciting great performances from great ladies should, within a year, preside over the demolition of Irving Thalberg's two grand dames: Garbo here and Norma Shearer in another feeble comedy, "Her Cardboard Lover." Neither star ever made another film." - Richard Corliss, "Greta Garbo," Pyramid Books, 1974
+Dave dvlaries I think her career was becoming to decline because at that time the pin-up fever was taking off, and they were trying to change Garbo's image, by trying to turn her into a pin-up. This, obviously, had nothing to do with her style, which was the total opposite. The film was not a hit, and she was already tired, so she decided to end her movie career.
I like the film and Garbo in it. However, I do agree that the film could use some improvement. But remember this, film was badly compromised because of certain demands that the Legion of Decency imposed on MGM. The Legion of Decency demanded that certain scenes be cut because they violated the morals clause. Garbo was then asked to reshoot some scenes to appease the Legion of Decency. Garbo refused stating that the story would be compromised if MGM caved in to the Legion of Decency. MGM caved fearing a blacklash and therefore deleted and reshot some scenes without Garbo making the story seem somewhat contrived and dated. Even with all the concessions made to please the Legion of Decency the film was still condemned by the Legion of Decency which kept many religious people away from the film. However I still think the film has a lot to offer for Garbo and Constance Bennett fans.
I don't know what you mean when you say "George Cukor is to blame. Blame for what? I loved this movie with Garbo and Constance Bennet as her nemesis. I have it also on DVD.
You seem to forget, America's idea of female leads had change.
At about this time, an unknown girl renamed Marilyn Monroe arrived on the scene
No market left for what had been termed a "Garbo picture".
Other somewhat "mature" actresses like Irene Dunne also plotted their exits
Neither the general public nor her core audience wanted to her this way.
Dora Glasberg "Two-Faced Woman" was released in 1941. Marilyn Monroe was 15 years old and still in high school.
Well thats true, but then you had women like Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene dietrich that were out and proud bisexuals and that didn't really adversely affect their careers at all (especially in Marlene's case..she went on to make film from like what..the 20s to the 1980s?) But Greta came from a different culture, they took her out of Sweden, but they couldn't take Sweden out of her!
"La chika chaka"? XD
@amirtoma If you look up GarboGalore's page you should find it there :D
01:37: So cute :-) "What is she doing with her hips? Hmm, alright, I ll try it too." ;-)
An icon
It was different dancing style - technique than in " Mata Hari"
OMG this is so funny, is amazing :D
The 1930s and 1940s' Hollywood was a true God's gift to mankind. That generation was the best, they were all geniuses. No one will ever compare to them - that's humanly impossible.
I love her look, except for those two oddly-placed clips in her hair!
Yes, what's up with those clips?
Love this scene. One issue I have is that while Adrian designed a gorgeous sequined gown for Constance Bennett ( who looks great) he has Garbo in a cheap dress with absolutely nothing to recommend it. And was intentional. MGM felt that audiences couldn't relate to her so she was to be deglamorized. Adrian was so disgusted by this order that shortly afterwards he left the studio. I another note, her dance partner was Robert Alton, who was the choreographer.
The quote attributed to the disillusioned Adrian was "They were trying to turn her into a 'sweater girl.' When you kill the mystery about Garbo, you kill Garbo." The glory days of the 30s were changing. WWII audiences wanted fresh faces and MGM's Louis Mayer provided them (Hedy Lamarr, July Garland, Lana Turner, Greer Garson). Of the old guard, the ones who had begun before or at the dawn of sound, and all of them Adrian favorites, Garbo and Norma Shearer walked away from their careers, Harlow was dead, and Crawford would soon reinvent herself at Warners.
I don't see any evidence of Garbo being a sweater girl in this film. She was her usual classy glamorous self but with a touch of satire and comedy. Garbo could never be a sweater girl if she tried and I think MGM knew that.
JACK ANTHONY you misunderstood. They were TRYING to turn Garbo into a sweater girl but she refused and rightly so. She was way too great an actress to succumb to that. That's how Hollywood rolls: it's a commercial and industrial conveyor belt to manufacture looks and fads and styles. The Garbo persona was from another more innocent time and the time was up in this picture. Unfortunately, these studio bosses were rather short-sighted because all they needed to do was make some other pictures that capitalised on her uniqueness while at the same time rolling out their pin ups and sweater girls. It doesn't always have to be one or the other. Many of those studio people and bosses were short sighted, despite their genius in other areas.
James Ryan that black dress she's wearing and her whole look is dreadful. So ordinary that it comes across as sabotage to her. They did the same thing to get rid of John Gilbert: they sabotaged and doctored his voice in his first talkie to make him sound high pitched and nasally. So they would literally be prepared to lose money on certain pictures to get rid of certain stars they no longer wanted to cultivate or sell. Hollywood was like a cut-price supermarket where certain goods were discounted and others discontinued. The neckline on the dress is remarkably low-cut for those times, and I'm surprised to see Garbo in it. It's unlike her. It is so plunging that it is reminiscent of the plunging Hooker-styles worn today. Her hair clips are absurd and oddly placed, and not at all chic, for such a chic actress, and even her hair has been changed away from the typical bob Garbo look that was her signature coiffure. She looks elderly in this and yet wasn't at all! Despite all that, the dance number is pleasant to watch but also rather sad in this context. Garbo was to retreat into being a recluse following this and to let her looks go and live quietly in Manhattan until she died in 1990. I feel sad that her career still had such a long way to go and with the right directors and scripts she could've easily had an interesting career that would've lasted until the very end. Many other huge stars managed to make transitions into television and so on in their later years. Without smart screenplays and producers that can use the talents of these players properly, this is what happens. Humans are so petty and short-sighted (and dumb) that it is rather sickening often to say one belongs to this race called "human". Garbo was best Garbo when she didn't talk, and didn't dance. She played so many dying or suffering women during her hey day, but the evil MGM suits certainly finished her off with this lemon!
some other studio could have grabbed her... they got swanson for sunset blvd. garbo could have starred in some classy flik.
LOL.." - Where are you going?"... " - Just having a glimpse of your bot!!"
Очень, очень, очень жаль, что это ее последний фильм 😢
Constance Bennett is DIVINE 💗
I've seen parts of this movie of the years, but not in its entirety. I adore Constance Bennett ❤ in all her glory. She was probably annoyed with GG in reality.
This how I want to dance
In "real life'Garbo would have been just as happy dancing LA CHEECA CHOCA with the woman as with the man.
There is certainly nothing wrong with Garbo, but it looks like MGM was nudging Garbo out with a mediocre film. A sad finale to a brilliant career.
The original script was excellent. But the Legion of Decency destroyed the film by insisting on the deletion of many scenes that they deemed immoral. At that time the Legion of Decency had great power. The deletion and reshooting of many scenes destroyed the film's edge and believability.
@allhailmadonna You can get her movies from eBay - I have them all.
The divine Constance Bennett.
Really funny. She dances as badly as I do - in the beginning.
*** Two-Faced Woman is a good romantic comedy, with very fun scenes at the ski resort. Unfortunately, the plot is patchy, has weak dialogues and loses a little bit in New York, where little funny thing happens. The best sequence is the dance of rumba with Garbo cheerful and half awkward, similar to the classic Ninotchka. I found her role as a ski teacher quite adequate. I don't know if she used a stunt double, but she's convincing. She appears particularly beautiful dressed in sportswear and also in a black dress, but some costumes don't value her body and hairstyles don't always live up to the beauty and glamor she used to offer the public. Cary Grant would be the ideal match for Garbo, however, Melvyn Douglas bursts out like the awkward student. I really enjoyed the outcome in the gorge. Overall, the movie serves to amuse, but does not come to impress. I think of this movie with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and directed by Preston Sturges. Sure enough, Garbo's career would be saved. The star has lost some of the brilliance of the last decades. I can't explain why. Maybe because her old, black and white movies are no longer being shown on TV channels. I remember that until the 1970s, she was still very popular and revered as a mysterious and enigmatic icon by movie critics and Hollywood colleagues.
She wanted to have fun. She was tired of being the mysterious woman who had to die..but the film wasnt successful..and because of the war...her overseas audience was gone. So..she decided it was time for her to retire.
womAn not womEn
They completely stripped Garbo of her mystery and glamour. That's why the picture was a shocking failure.
World War 2 audiences may have grown weary of Garbo's mystery and glamour as evidenced by Miss Garbo's declining box office receipts in the 5 years preceding Two Faced Woman. MGM and Garbo had no choice but to create a new image if Garbo was to stay in business. Garbo herself stated that she was not that versatile of an actress and therefore found it hard to play anything other than mysterious and glamourous. However, I think Garbo did a fine job in this film and who cares if she wasn't mysteriouos and glamorous in this film....she had done enough of those already.
@City Dweller Apsolutly not, I like Joan very much but no, can't even imagine it, Joan was a great actress just not for this
DIE GEHEIMNISVOLLE
What film is this? I think she incredible woman. Nothing could stop Garbo............She's so alive free liberal............ I was once was free had no one to answer to..........................Michael Douglass sold all the Lion King Royal codes to foreigners then got mad cause nobody could move.
Look at the beginning of the video!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Faced_Woman
What's the name of the movie?
That must have been at least two and a half decades ago.
Much much MORE
Love Greta--but let's face it, she's no dancer. They taught her some simple moves. And used a sub (distance shot) in the only challenging move. That's Hollywood!
I agree that her dancing is somewhat wooden.
Все прекрасно, кроме нелепых заколок. Такова была мода.
What was the comment she made after he stated this is a new one on me?
"Quite new."
Hmmm. First of all did you send me a friend request? We should totally be friends. Anyway, I see what you're saying..it might have tarnished the mysterious image. But Greta was molded by the movie makers to appear a certain way. I think it was pretty much an open secret that she liked women, it didn't require her confirmation. The only man I know she loved at some point was John Gilbert. Btw have you heard about the love letters she sent Mimi Pollack her drama school companion in Sweden?
Doesn't she remind you of Frida from ABBA?
@zipzapusa :-)
A playful Garbo. At the end of her film career.
constance bennett stole this movie from her.should have traded parts.
Honestly, Garbo and rumba don't go together.
That's what's so fun about the movie. Don't you get it?
This is horrible. How could they!
la ultima película de Garbo y la película que fue fracaso por culpa de su Amiga y representante Salka Viertel, eso causo que la Divina dejara para siempre el escenario. por 1941.cuando quizo regresar realmente por 1949 ya era tarde.
Jessica lafortuna por qué fue la culpa de su representante ?
La película hubiera sido un éxito si las Ligas de Decencia no se hubieran metido por medio, teniendo que rehacer algunas escenas, lo cual provocó que en algunos aspectos el film quedara incoherente. No hay por qué cargarle a Salka Viertel el muerto.
Igual ella nunca hubiese podido aggionarse a los cambios que se venian... todo iba siendo cada vez mas comercial y superfluo en el mainstream y ella no hubiese cuadrado debido a su magia y misterio...
only cherilze theron comes close to garbo
Garbo tried but was miscast in this film. For the most part Garbo really wasn't suited for comedy. Not even her costumes really flatter her. The supporting cast especially Constance Bennett steals the film.
she got old,in the period of betty grable,rita hayworth,ava gardner who was just coming up ,dorothy lamour,paulette goddard,she was old hat.
World War II interfered with her career. This movie was made in 1941 and she was much more popular in Europe than in North America. She decided to sit out the war and maybe come back afterward. But she had difficulty finding a good vehicle and felt her screen test at 44 in 1949 was not good enough to put her back in glamorous roles.
@@lray1948 Movie actresses should never take time off. When they try to come back they find that someone else has taken their crown.
Jeeze. She is God Awful, isn't she?
Her hair, makeup, and wardrobe were terrible in this film. It was almost like deliberate sabotage.