The 100 Greatest Performances
Premiere ranks the best performances in movie history and talks to some of the actors and directors who made those performances possible.
25. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka
Ninotchka (1939)
No one has objectified feminine beauty as intensely and mysteriously as Garbo. She remained aloof to public adoration, and built her reputation on tragically romantic roles, from Camille to Anna Karenina. When she transitioned from silent to sound movies, MGM boasted “Garbo Talks!” And when she starred in this romantic comedy about a severe Soviet apparatchik who falls in love with a French count (Melvyn Douglas), MGM blared “Garbo Laughs!” Indeed she did, showing comedic timing and earthiness as never before.
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