Love and Romance January 21, 2010

Love and Romance - Silent Movie Series with Theater Organist Dennis James: Flesh & the Devil GILBERT AND GARBO IN LOVEFLESH & THE DEVIL - 1927Starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert Hollywood's fabulous lovers entwined in a romantic story of fatal attraction set in 19th century Austria. According to Pauline Kael: "Greta Garbo, with pencil-line eyebrows above sex-drugged lids, plays a bored, sensual, wicked woman in a story about sacred and profane love... Garbo was a blissfully beautiful twenty-one at the time, and no other actress went at the bodies of her leading men the way she did."Greta Garbo is the siren whose insatiable sexuality threatens to tear apart blood brothers John Gilbert and Lars Hanson in this overheated and melodramatic masterpiece. Flesh and the Devil contains, among its three smoldering love scenes, the first-ever horizontal-position kiss in American film, between Garbo and her real-life lover Gilbert. It also made a household name out of Garbo, who plays the ultimate femme fatale: a sophisticated and deliciously sultry incarnation of feminine desire whose white-hot evil in classic Hollywood style can only be purged by her sacrifice in an icy lake. Location : The Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Stage I

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