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Greta Garbo ... In 1947 she was supposed to portray George Sand, and to have rejected the lead in The Paradine Case at the last moment. In the spring 1949 an Italian film was “set“ as well as The Duchess of Langelais, which Walter Wagner was going to produce. The latter was postponed over and over again, but by October it had been officially titled Lovers and Friends. There were many more rumours about movies than mentioned here. And they have not died out after these pictures were taken in 1949.

Garbo on camera

“Garbo returns to the screen“, “Garbo to make new movie“ are headlines that have occurred frequently since she left MGM after completing Two-Faced Woman in 1941.

Shortly before it opened it was said that she was going to appear in a film of Tolstoys’s The Kreutzer Sonat. In March, 1943, she was to play the part of Saint Joan in England, and a year later she was to appear in a film about the Norwegian fleet in the war. In 1945 she was supposed to co-star with Bing Crosby in a musical, and a year later to appear in an Alexander Korda production in England, a movie about l8th century Swedish monarch Gustaf III and Sarah Bernhardt.

In 1947 she was supposed to portray George Sand, and to have rejected the lead in The Paradine Case at the last moment. In the spring 1949 an Italian film was “set“ as well as The Duchess of Langelais, which Walter Wagner was going to produce. The latter was postponed over and over again, but by October it had been officially titled Lovers and Friends. There were many more rumours about movies than mentioned here. And they have not died out after these pictures were taken in 1949.

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