![]() Lars Hansen plays the title role, a defrocked minister living on an estate with various rogues, n’eer do wells and drunkards, courtesy of the roistering lady of the estate, who calls them her knights. Gosta Berling is an epic film directed by Mauritz Stiller, in many ways the culmination of the Swedish silent cinema. She had a pivotal role in The Saga of Gosta Berling and then in Pabst’s The Joyless Street, in Germany, two important European silent films. She auditioned for and got a place in the Academy of the Royal Dramatic Theater, and soon after was sent for an audition for the man who would become her mentor, director Mauritz Stiller. At fifteen, she started in the millinery section of a large department store, and was soon modelling hats, which led to acting in some short advertising films. Her father died when she was 14, and she was already working as a lather girl in a barber shop. Greta Gustafsson was the third child of a low paid day laborer and his wife, a kitchen maid. In the novel, they meet as adults, thanks to the torrent of the title.Ĭoincidentally, we are showing Greta Garbo’s first Hollywood film, and, next month, her last success, Ninotchka. On screen, the lovers had a youthful relationship denied by the boy’s mother. Entre Naranjos does bear somewhat of a resemblance to the film, with a considerable timeline alteration. Although I can’t confirm this, it is an indication of how far his works have fallen in favor. The copy of Entre Naranjos I took out of the Duke Library had a charge slip that said it had last been taken out in 1943. Two of Garbo’s earliest silents, tonight’s film and The Temptress were based on his works. Rex Ingram, who directed the Four Horsemen, also filmed Ibáñez’ Mare Nostrum, an espionage story. Later, his plotting became more eventful, and Hollywood came calling, particularly for two Rudoph Valentino movies, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (a WW I drama which made Valentino a star) and the bullfighting story, Blood and Sand. Entre Naranjos ( Between the Orange Trees, written in 1900) was an example of this measured style. Influenced by Emile Zola, he wrote in a naturalistic style, and was interested in the intersection of nature, nurture and social and political conditions. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and was a journalist, he wrote his first novel in 1892. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a popular author writing in Spanish in the early 20th century, whose works were the source for several popular silent movies. Silent film with live music by David Drazin. Based on a popular novel by Blasco Ibáñez, and drenched with MGM’s glossy romanticism, you’ll see a star blaze to life on screen as an imperious diva struggles with her passion for a mama’s boy with bedroom eyes. Garbo is incandescent in her first American film, as a village lass transformed into a jaded prima donna with a penchant for fur trimmed evening wraps. Greta Garbo, Ricardo Cortez, Gertrude Olmstead (88 min). ![]()
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