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Garbo Talks is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, and Carrie Fisher, with an uncredited appearance by Betty Comden as Greta Garbo. The film was written by Larry Grusin, and also stars Catherine Hicks , Steven Hill , and the first screen appearance of Mary McDonnell .
She begins delivering a monologue to Garbo. The camera zooms in slowly as Bancroft emotes tearfully about her life, her loves, her hopes, her dreams. Is that why she wanted to meet Garbo?
Gabo Talks is a 1984 film directed by Sidney Lumet. The movie stars Anne Bancroft as a terminally ill woman who asks her son, Gilbert, to help her fulfill her last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.
Brilliant and done in one take and one continuous shot! Bancroft was nominated for a Golden Globe but not an Oscar. This is acting!
- 9 min
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- Chris Smith
Aug 28, 2014 · The feisty and opinionated Estelle Rolfe (Anne Bancroft) – an eccentric, but typical Jewish mother – has been given a grim diagnosis, she has but a few weeks to live due to an inoperable brain tumor. Gilbert’s odyssey to somehow get close enough to the elusive Garbo to ask her for the favor of visiting his mother at New York Hospital ...
Garbo Talks: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks. The son of a woman dying of a brain tumor tries to fulfill his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.
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