Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

London-headquartered Embankment Films has begun production on Garbo: Leave Me Alone, a new feature documentary about screen legend Greta Garbo, with an eye to a winter 2024 theatrical release followed ...

Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has come aboard as both executive producer and narrator for Embankment Films’ forthcoming documentary on legendary Hollywood ...

Garbo. By Robert Gottlieb. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 448 pages; $40. To be released in Britain in January; £32 SHE WAS everything on screen and not much off it. That is the conclusion to be drawn ...

The first biography of Greta Garbo was published in America in 1931, when the Swedish film star was 26. Piles of other books have followed, with no sign of letting up even now, more than three decades ...

The biography adds ‘context,’ a superb historical and sociological discussion of how and why Garbo did not fit Hollywood standards of beauty and then became the Hollywood standard of beauty.

Coming a century after the Swedish actress’ film debut, Robert Gottlieb’s biography of Greta Garbo is a classic movie lover’s dream. Enriching his insightful reconsideration of Garbo’s life and career ...

Glamorously elusive onscreen and famously reclusive off it, Greta Garbo was the rare silent-movie idol who finessed the transition to talkies. In “Garbo,” his lively new appraisal of her life and ...