Movies
Anna Christie
Garbo, showing off her famous thick ankles, and looking generally dumpy and discouraged as a waterfront tramp, appears in her historic, first talking role ("Gif me a viskey and don' be stingy," and so on). The movie itself, one of seven Garbo vehicles directed by Clarence Brown, is hopelessly stagy, but some of the talk (from Eugene O'Neill) is full of poetry or wind or some other leavening substance. With Charles Bickford and Marie Dressler. 1930.
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MPAA Rating: NR