Garbo LaughsThis is a quixotic tale about movie love. Harriet Browning is so saturated with old movies, seen repeatedly and swallowed whole, that she no longer fits into this world. Equally addicted are her three companions-of-the-screen: a son who loves Frank Sinatra, a daughter with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Breaking in upon this quiet backwater come two refugees from Hollywood, the jaded widow of a famous screenwriter and her movie-expert stepson. They are Harsh Reality. With them come blackouts, arguments, accidents, illness, and sudden death. But what chance does real life stand when we can watch movies instead? In this brilliant, sad-eyed comedy of secondhand desire, movies and movie lovers come first. |
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Elizabeth Hay. Harriet escaped to the back of the store and stayed there until he left , then joined Bill Bender at the counter , a stooped old gent in his eighties , big - shouldered , white- haired , whose pale old eyes looked at her ...
Elizabeth Hay. Harriet escaped to the back of the store and stayed there until he left , then joined Bill Bender at the counter , a stooped old gent in his eighties , big - shouldered , white- haired , whose pale old eyes looked at her ...
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... stayed in ? " " Do you think they stayed there to- gether ? " she asked . " Or at different times ? " " It had to be together . Frank would never stay there after they split up if Ava stayed before . I know Frank . When Peter Lawford ...
... stayed in ? " " Do you think they stayed there to- gether ? " she asked . " Or at different times ? " " It had to be together . Frank would never stay there after they split up if Ava stayed before . I know Frank . When Peter Lawford ...
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... stayed with them one night when she was a child , sleeping in the same room where the seam- stress stayed twice a year when she came to sew all of their clothes ; a man who wanted to hear " Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone ...
... stayed with them one night when she was a child , sleeping in the same room where the seam- stress stayed twice a year when she came to sew all of their clothes ; a man who wanted to hear " Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone ...
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