A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1927) 195 John Gilbert was by now one of the most soughtafter leading men in pictures. To play opposite him was practically star insurance for any girl. In Twelve Miles Out, he was teamed with young Joan Crawford. You'd hardly know our Joan, would you? BELOW But Gilbert was headed for a partnership that was to last for years and to become one of the most famous in the annals of the screen. Greta Garbo, Stiller's protegee, after waiting around for a while, was at last assigned to play opposite Ricardo Cortez in a screen version of ibanez' The Torrent (1926). Al most overnight she took her place as one of the most potent personalities in the history of pictures— a position that she still retains, by the way. Next she played with Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore in The Temptress ( 1926). She found her ideal leading man, however, when she appeared with John Gilbert, in 1927, in Flesh and the Devil, a scene from which. is shown here. The picture established them as the great lovers on the screen. One reason for Garbo's enduring popularity is undoubtedly that women are, if possible, even more fascinated by her than are men. Matinees mean box office.