Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Dolores del Rio, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan, Greta Garbo.
Category Archives: Greta Garbo
Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1933
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Greta Garbo, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert (almost unrecognizable here if you ask me), and Norma Shearer.
Filed under 1930s, Claudette Colbert, Greta Garbo, Joan Bennett, Norma Shearer, Photoplay
Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1932
- Garbo’s back and Gable’s got her–on January’s cover. The two were starring onscreen in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise.
- Garbo, Gable and the other cover subjects (in order of appearance): Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, and Norma Shearer.
- Gable got around: in addition to Garbo, he’d appeared with Shearer in 1931’s A Free Soul and would co-star with Astor in Red Dust, released later in 1932.
Filed under 1930s, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, Norma Shearer, Photoplay
Photoplay May-Aug. 1930
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Mary Brian, Ann Harding, Jeanette MacDonald, and of course Greta Garbo.
Filed under 1930s, Ann Harding, Greta Garbo, Jeanette MacDonald, Mary Brian, Photoplay
Photoplay May-June 1929
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): June Collyer, Olga Baclanova, Bessie Love and–of course–Greta Garbo.
- Bessie Love was riding high–she’d just appeared in MGM’s first two full-length MGM musicals of the sound era, The Broadway Melody of 1929 and The Hollywood Revue of 1929.
- The Broadway Melody of 1929 was the first sound picture to receive the Best Picture Oscar.
- Starting with July’s Bessie Love portrait, Earl Christy settles in as Photoplay’s regular cover artist.
- Garbo’s erstshile beau John Gilbert married actress Ina Claire.
Filed under 1920s, Bessie Love, Earl Christy, Greta Garbo, June Collyer, Olga Baclanova
Photoplay May-Aug. 1928
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): blondes Greta Garbo, Marion  Davies, Ruth Taylor–and brunette Billie Dove.
- Garbo and John Gilbert (who “Writes His Own Story” in the June issue) had just appeared together in “Love”, a 1927 film adaptation of Anna Karenina. They’d next co-star in “A Woman of Affairs,” released in late 1928.
Filed under 1920s, Billie Dove, Greta Garbo, Marion Davies, Ruth Taylor
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