Watch Garbo Talks (1984) Free Online

Release Date: 1984

Cast: Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da Silva, Carrie Fisher, Hermione Gingold, Steven Hill, Catherine Hicks, Ron Silver, Dorothy Loudon, Richard B. Shull, Anne Bancroft

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Tragicomedy

Garbo Talks is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, and Betty Comden as Greta Garbo. The movie was written by Larry Grusin and also stars Catherine Hicks and Steven Hill. Bancroft was nominated for a Golden Globe. Greta Garbo's low, husky voice and Swedish accent was first heard on screen in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1930), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks." Estelle Rolfe (Anne Bancroft) is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for... MORE

Garbo Talks is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, and Betty Comden as Greta Garbo. The movie was written by Larry Grusin and also stars Catherine Hicks and Steven Hill. Bancroft was nominated for a Golden Globe. Greta Garbo's low, husky voice and Swedish accent was first heard on screen in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1930), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks." Estelle Rolfe (Anne Bancroft) is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won't cross a picket line for her son's wedding. She also loves films starring Greta Garbo, the film actress whose transition from silent films to her first sound film was ballyhooed in advertisements with the slogan "GARBO TALKS." When Estelle learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo. Her dutiful son, Gilbert (Ron Silver), a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star in several films, John Gilbert, intends to fulfill his mother's wish despite Garbo's known reclusiveness. Gilbert hires a paparazzo (Howard Da Silva) to show LESS