039 represent anna christie ( 1930 ) release 2/21/1930 while view negative /06 on october 24 and 1929 represent black thursday and the stock market crash . now the country and indeed the world will look to hollywood for escape from the worldwide great depression . births represent anne frank and june carter and yasser arafat and bob newhart and barbara walter and doris robert and ed asner and dick clark and roy e. disney and gene hackman . doug represent at long last and our odyssey resume in earnest with greta garbo first sound film and a simple character study call anna christie . an excellent performance from ms. garbo and who show right off the bat that her talent could carry over from the silent era ( i want to see some of her silent work and but netflix doesn not seem to be stock them . how odd ) . one thing i notice over and over be the way the swedish accent sound and like replace the letter j with a y sound . anna end up be the only character i like while i do not really care for her estranged father or her would be suitor . it look like the sound record system be get well ( nobody lean in to talk into the mystery can ) and but the camera still isn not move . we will be sure to watch for that to change a our odyssey continue . kevin represent our first film of the 1930 be the first sound film of silent starlet greta garbo and anna christie . this be a very simple movie and with only about five different location where we spend long stretch of the film 89 minute run time and often with a static camera . it be great to see marie dressler in sound a well and and quite hilarious a what we hear be an endless chain of heartfelt yet inebriate slur . i very much enjoy garbo performance and a she sustain the film through even the most meandering moment . i do not really like george marion or charles bickford and maybe because i wasn not sympathetic to either of them and so i be relieve and excite when anna finally stand up for herself and show them that she doesn not belong to either her estrange father or her muscle bound irish boyfriend . it also great to see that renowned silent screenwriter france marion hasn not miss a step go from silent to sound . last film view represent speedy ( 1928 ) . last film chronologically represent the love parade ( 1929 ) . next film represent the blue angel ( 1930 ) .