Film Forum - October 27

We should be having an “Alien” marathon but no, instead we’ll turn to our genuine classic for this fall, "Garbo Talks!" Yes, it’s Garbo’s first talkie, the film version of one of Eugene O’Neill’s earlier plays, “Anna Christie,” about a young woman that returns to see her father, a river boat captain. He wants only to protect her, not knowing that she has been leading the life of a prostitute that has been hardened to the reality in which she lives.  The film stars Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, and Marie Dressler. Garbo was the one MGM star kept out of talking films the longest because of her foreign-sounding voice. Her famous first line is: "Gimme a vhisky, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby!"  O’Neill’s earliest plays were influenced by the time he spent in the Merchant Marines, shipping out and coming home to drench himself in
booze and memories before he became our best playwright of the 20^th century!  1930. 89 minutes