Garbo: Career–Sound Films

In a career spanning almost two decades, Greta Garbo made 28 films, 23 of which in Hollywood.

Of her 23 American films, 14 were sound (talkies) and the rest silent.

Below please find list of films, name of Garbo’s character, director, and co-star.

1930

Anna Christie

Anna Christie

D: Clarence Brown
Co-stars: Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler
Garbo’s first talkie

Best Actress Oscar nomination

Romance

Madame Rita Cavallini

Clarence Brown
Gavin Gordon

Best Actress Oscar Nomination

Anna Christie, director Jacques Feyder (German version)
Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel

1931

Inspiration, Yvonne Valbret, Clarence Brown
Robert Montgomery

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Susan Lenox
Robert Z. Leonard
Clark Gable

Mata Hari, Mata Hari
George Fitzmaurice
Ramon Novarro

Garbo’s second highest-grossing film

1932

Grand Hotel, Grusinskaya, Edmund Goulding
John Barrymore,
Lionel Barrymore,
Joan Crawford,
Wallace Beery
Academy Award for Best Picture

As You Desire Me
Zara aka Marie
George Fitzmaurice
Melvyn Douglas,
Erich von Stroheim
First of three movies with Douglas

1933

Queen Christina, Queen Christina
Rouben Mamoulian
John Gilbert

1934

The Painted Veil, Katrin Koerber Fane
Richard Boleslavski
George Brent

1935

Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina
Clarence Brown
Fredric March
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

1936

Camille, Marguerite Gautier, George Cukor

Robert Taylor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
National Board of Review Best Acting Award
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress

1937

Conquest, Countess Marie Walewska

Clarence Brown
Charles Boyer

1939

Ninotchka, Nina Ivanovna “Ninotchka” Yakushova, Ernst Lubitsch
Melvyn Douglas

Best Actress, National Board of Review
Best Actress Oscar Nomination

1941

Two-Faced Woman, Karin Borg Blake, George Cukor
Melvyn Douglas

Best Actress, National Board of Review