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Garbo Talks (1984)The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish - to meet Greta Garbo. Director:Sidney LumetWriter:Larry Grusin |
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Estelle Rolfe
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Gilbert Rolfe
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| Carrie Fisher | ... |
Lisa Rolfe
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Jane Mortimer
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Steven Hill | ... |
Walter Rolfe
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Howard Da Silva | ... |
Angelo Dokakis
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Dorothy Loudon | ... |
Sonya Apollinar
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Hermione Gingold | ... |
Elizabeth Rennick
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Richard B. Shull | ... | |
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Michael Lombard | ... |
Mr. Morganelli
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Ed Crowley | ... |
Mr. Goldhammer
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| Alice Spivak | ... |
Claire Rolfe
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Maurice Sterman | ... |
Dr. Cohen
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Antonia Rey | ... |
Puerto Rican Nurse
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Storyline
Estelle 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 Garbo films: when she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo. Her dutiful son Gilbert, a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star, hires a paparazzo to show him Garbo's flat, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market. As his obsession distances him from his wife, he's drawn to a struggling actress he meets at work. Can he find Garbo; if so, will she talk? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Garbo Talks! See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$127,192 (USA) (14 October 1984) (16 Screens)Gross:
$1,493,782 (USA)Company Credits
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the words DIAMOND JUBILEE arced over it's head, with SIXTY YEARS OF GREAT
ENTERTAINMENT across the bottom of the screen. See more »
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Betty Comden was hired to play Garbo at the end of the film because the producers were sure that the real Garbo either could not be located or would flatly turn them down. They did try however, a known associate of Greta Garbo's. He was located and was asked to ask the great actress if she would appear in the film, but the associate never responded back. That is Comden we see in the film. See more »Goofs
Continuity: The construction worker (Mr. Electric Tongue!) has his pop can in his right hand and a sandwich in his left. In the next shot, they are each in the other hands. See more »Crazy Credits
In the 2003 DVD issued by ILC Prime the usual MGM lion is there but withthe words DIAMOND JUBILEE arced over it's head, with SIXTY YEARS OF GREAT
ENTERTAINMENT across the bottom of the screen. See more »
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