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[on casting the leading role in
O Retrato de Dorian Gray (1945)]: One day, I received a message from
Cedric Gibbons, who wanted to see me on a matter of urgency and secrecy. Gibby was the only close friend of
Greta Garbo around the studio, and he had been deputed to tell me that Garbo wanted to play Dorian. Indeed, it was the only role she would come back to the screen for. Of course, I moved ...
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 657-661. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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