Joan Crawford narrates a programme, first broadcast in 1969, that looks at Greta Garbo's art and life through her films.

The lines that form outside Manhattan’s Film Forum can sometimes be of the kind more associated with rock concerts. In fact, any time there is a screening involving a long-lost film or a special guest ...

In 1969, the BBC scored a coup. The network tapped none other than Joan Crawford, one of the largest (or larger-than-life) film legends to narrate a documentary — which the U.K.’s BBC Four is now ...

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie looking intently while holding a drink in the film Anna Christie. Image via MGM Greta Garbo haunted the screen. With her otherworldly features, commanding silences, and ...

She seems in pain, yet amused by her misery, when she confesses to John Barrymore, “I want to be alone.” That line, from the 1932 Grand Hotel, was often taken as Greta Garbo’s autobiographical ...

Greta Garbo arrived in Hollywood as an unknown, unsophisticated actress from Sweden and left 16 years later a rich woman. “I have made enough faces,” said the Golden Age star, who successfully ...

After her retirement from the cinema in 1943, she 'disappeared' from the face of the earth. The media portrayed her as a recluse, but 'The Divine' knew how to enjoy life with friends like Onassis or ...