was the MGM Studios’ ad campaign for a Greta Garbo film. Which film?
The slogan was used for Garbo’s 14th film, but first talkie Anna Christie (1930). Garbo had already established herself as a superstar in the silent movies, but because of her heavy Swedish accent studio executives were concerned because many super stars were unable to make the transition from the silent movies to the talkies. Even after talkies made their debut, Garbo starred in two more silent movies before Anna Christie. She made the transition and continued to make movies. Always more popular overseas than in the United States, she became less and less a box office draw as war clouds formed over Europe. In 1939, the ad people came up with an Anna Christie-type line for Garbo’s first comedy movie Ninotchka, “Garbo Laughs.” Her last film Two Faced Woman (1941) was a flop and the 36 year old went into retirement. She briefly considered returning to the silver screen with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case (1947), but opted instead to remain in retirement. On April 15, 1990, she died
