Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-American actress, widely regarded as one of the greatest stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Known for her melancholic and enigmatic screen presence, she starred in iconic films such as Anna Karenina, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka. Throughout her career, she was celebrated for her subtle and understated performances, earning three Academy Award nominations and an honorary Oscar in 1954.
Garbo was famously private, avoiding the Hollywood social scene and retiring from acting at the age of 35. Her personal life has long been the subject of speculation, particularly regarding her sexuality. She was romantically linked to several women, including writer Mercedes de Acosta and actress Marlene Dietrich, fueling rumors that she may have been lesbian or bisexual. However, Garbo never publicly addressed these rumors, maintaining an air of mystery that only added to her legendary status.
Her legacy continues to captivate audiences, with her influence extending beyond film into discussions of gender, sexuality, and Hollywood’s golden age.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5223 |
| Birthday | 1905-09-18 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden |
| Also Known As | Greta Gustafsson, Грета Ловиса Густафссон, Грета Густафссон, |
1939
Ninotchka
7.524/445
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Ninotchka
1929
Wild Orchids
6.342/19
A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.
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Wild Orchids
1929
The Kiss
6.37/27
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
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The Kiss
1931
Inspiration
5.889/9
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
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Inspiration
1937
Conquest
6.6/23
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence h...
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Conquest
1934
Queen Christina
6.924/145
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
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Queen Christina
1925
Joyless Street
6.798/52
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their fam...
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Joyless Street
1932
Grand Hotel
7/363
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Grand Hotel
1931
Mata Hari
6.2/63
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Mata Hari
1928
A Woman of Affairs
6.519/26
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her...
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A Woman of Affairs
1969
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
6/2
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1930
Anna Christie
6.026/58
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnes...
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Anna Christie
1936
Camille
6.965/158
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t...
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Camille
1993
Minns ni?
0/0
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Minns ni?
1926
Flesh and the Devil
7.162/65
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...
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Flesh and the Devil
1924
The Saga of Gösta Berling
6.6/33
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of co...
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The Saga of Gösta Berling
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.489/91
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
1929
A Man's Man
8/1
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
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A Man's Man
1934
The Painted Veil
6.4/39
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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The Painted Veil
1935
Anna Karenina
6.569/102
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to...
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Anna Karenina
1949
Testfilm Greta Garbo
0/0
A screen test for a planned adaptation of Balzac's The Duchess Of Langelais, which was never made.
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Testfilm Greta Garbo
1930
Romance
6.474/19
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
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Romance
1941
Two-Faced Woman
6.4/28
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Two-Faced Woman
1926
The Temptress
6.7/23
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
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The Temptress
1929
The Single Standard
5.75/8
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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The Single Standard
1927
Love
5.686/35
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistr...
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Love
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
7.2/4
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1928
The Mysterious Lady
7.3/37
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in dang...
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The Mysterious Lady
1932
As You Desire Me
6.4/14
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's es...
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As You Desire Me
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.067/15
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
1931
Susan Lenox
6.143/21
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome enginee...
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Susan Lenox
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
5.9/44
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
1926
Torrent
6.7/10
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's...
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Torrent
2022
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
6/8
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
1928
The Divine Woman
7.2/9
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love,...
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The Divine Woman
1920
Mr. and Mrs. Stockholm Out Shopping
6.667/3
Mr and Mrs Stockholm visit the Paul U. Bergström (PUB) department store to buy a new wardrobe after their home had previously been destroyed by a fire...
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Mr. and Mrs. Stockholm Out Shopping
1922
Peter the Tramp
6/3
Greta Garbo in her first feature "Luffar-Petter" (Petter The Tramp) 1922. Only a 10-minute fragment of the film has survived. She plays one of the thr...
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Peter the Tramp
1921
Our Daily Bread
5.333/3
In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in t...
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Our Daily Bread
1930
Anna Christie
7.8/12
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually...
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Anna Christie
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7/2
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
1935
Do You Remember?
0/0
Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found...
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Do You Remember?
1995
Stjärnbilder
10/1
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film h...
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Stjärnbilder
2005
Garbo
6.9/7
An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and m...
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Garbo
1990
The Divine Garbo
0/0
Profile of actress Greta Garbo, narrated by Glenn Close
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The Divine Garbo
2003
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
7/1
This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-th...
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
2024
Garbo: Where Did You Go?
6.556/9
An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.
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Garbo: Where Did You Go?
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
7.5/2
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. D...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1931
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
0/0
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue...
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
1929
With Greta Garbo on the Swedish American Line's Ship
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The world's most famous Swede in 1929 is undoubtedly Greta Garbo. Here the photographer has taken her on a boat departing Gothenburg as she returns to...
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With Greta Garbo on the Swedish American Line's Ship
1986
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
8/2
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
7/2
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are...
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The Romance of Celluloid
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
5/1
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at t...
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From the Ends of the Earth
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.8/4
An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and daugh...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
2003
Complicated Women
6.9/12
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
7/44
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.75/8
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
2010
Sigrid Holmquist
7/1
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film cl...
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Sigrid Holmquist
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.3/5
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
7.167/6
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5/12
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2001
Greta Garbo: A Lone Star
7/1
Runs through Greta Garbo's life and films in chronological order in an attempt to reveal the 'real' Garbo.
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Greta Garbo: A Lone Star
1921
A Fortune Hunter
7/2
Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
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A Fortune Hunter
1922
A Scarlet Angel
8.5/2
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all th...
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A Scarlet Angel
1988
Stiller, Garbo & jag
3.667/3
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees be...
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
1963
30 Years of Fun
5.3/3
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buste...
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30 Years of Fun
1991
The Meeting of Two Queens
0/0
Cecilia Barriga’s culty video montage tells the story of two queens who fall in love, unwittingly played by Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Clipped...
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The Meeting of Two Queens
1920
Sweden and Swedish Industries
0/0
In this promotional film in five parts, Greta points at the town of Malmö on a wall map.
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Sweden and Swedish Industries
2014
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
3/1
Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo.
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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
1.5/2
What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Garbo and Sergei Michajlovič Eisenstein, could have d...
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The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
2010
Rediscovering John Gilbert
0/0
This documentary features an on-camera interview with John Gilbert's daughter and biographer, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain.
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Rediscovering John Gilbert
1974
Adam & Yves
5.7/7
An American in Paris meets a young Frenchman who likes to mix sex play with a complicated mind game based on scenes from famous films.
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Adam & Yves
2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
0/0
Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.
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Hollywood sul Tevere
2015
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
8/1
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1995
The Casting Couch
8.3/3
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes...
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The Casting Couch
1969
Marlowe
6.132/95
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it lea...
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Marlowe
2011
Vito
7/15
In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He w...
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Vito
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
10/3
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
4.4/5
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1995
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
2/1
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer...
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Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8/9
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
2022
Azzedine Alaïa, un couturier français
7.5/1
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1926
Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
0/0
The Swedish Crown Prince and Crown Princess visit the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.
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Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
2016
My Scientology Movie
6.58/305
After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun...
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My Scientology Movie
1969
The Happy Ending
6.1/29
When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it's 16 years later; Fred ha...
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