'''Garbo 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. As her son, played by
Ron Silver, carries out his search for Garbo, he confronts his relationship with his wife and an interest in a struggling actress.
The movie was written by
Larry Grusin and stars
Anne Bancroft,
Ron Silver,
Carrie Fisher,
Catherine Hicks and
Steven Hill. Bancroft was nominated for a
Golden Globe for her work in the film.
Howard Da Silva,
Dorothy Loudon,
Harvey Fierstein and
Hermione Gingold have supporting roles as, respecively, a down-on-his-luck paparazzo and his agent, a gay man that Gilbert meets on the Fire Island ferry, and a nearly-senile actress who once worked with the elusive Garbo. Broadway songwriter
Betty Comden plays Garbo, and her writing partner
Adolph Green has a cameo.
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