MGM Stories Part 4: John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
- Podcast Episode
- 2015
- 40m
Rising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor's The Big Parade, the studio's biggest hit of the silent era. That same year, Louis B. Ma... Read allRising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor's The Big Parade, the studio's biggest hit of the silent era. That same year, Louis B. Mayer brought his new discovery to Hollywood: an enigmatic Swedish actress named Greta Garbo... Read allRising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor's The Big Parade, the studio's biggest hit of the silent era. That same year, Louis B. Mayer brought his new discovery to Hollywood: an enigmatic Swedish actress named Greta Garbo. Garbo and Gilbert starred together in the romantic melodrama Flesh and the Devil, and be... Read all