Movie Offers After Garbo Retired
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williwaw — 13 years ago(June 27, 2012 06:52 AM)
Sam Spiegel the great producer who produced The Bridge On The River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Suddenly Last Summer, The Wild One, etc with stars such as Brando, Hepburn, O'Toole, Guiness, Holden, Taylor, Clift, etc always had Garbo as an invited guest on his majestic yacht that sailed in spledored style, and gave Garbo essentially a blank check to pick the story Garbo wanted to return and the salary Garbo -who was rich rich rich in private life- wanted but Garbo always refused. One movie Spiegel had on the roster to tempt Garbo was Nicholas And Alexandra, his last film at Columbia.
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MorningStarEveningStar — 13 years ago(July 02, 2012 08:26 AM)
I think Luchino Visconti wanted Garbo (along with Edwige Feuillre, Helmut Berger, Marlon Brando, Alain Delon, Sylvana Mangano and Simone Signoret) in his adaptation of Proust's " la recherche du temps perdu" but never directed it.
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DelovelyX — 10 years ago(December 13, 2015 04:18 AM)
She was offered Norma Desmond.
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markedjuan — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 12:38 AM)
Garbo's friend, the producer Robert Frye, wanted her to play the lead nun in
The Trouble with Angels
, which was filmed in the mid-1960s. Garbo reportedly took an interest in the part but she eventually turned it down. Rosalind Russell got the part.
Fryer later asked her to play the aging Norma Desmond-type star in his disaster flick
Airport 1975
, but again she turned it down. The original Norma Desmond,Gloria Swanson, was cast, though she at first turned it down flat since she said there was no way she was reprising Desmond in a disaster movie. Everyone agreed that Swanson could instead play herself in the film -
DelovelyX — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 11:32 AM)
Yeah, I read that Vanity Fair article written by Frye. Very informative.
I don't know how they could've ever though she'd accept a role in a disaster movie.
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markedjuan — 10 years ago(January 13, 2016 12:01 AM)
It would16d0 also have been intriguing to see Garbo play the mother superior in
The Trouble with Angels
, though even doing that film would have been beneath her.
I wonder what sort of roles she could have played in the various films that were produced in the decades following her retirement. She'd probably had played titled dowagers in movies with all star casts the contessa in
Ship of Fools
, or perhaps the mysterious Russian princess in
Murder on the Orient Express
(first offered to Ingrid Bergman but eventually played by Wendy Hiller!).