Garbo""s first talkie film, Anna Christie, was advertised with the promotional line: "Garbo Talks!" - so naturally, jokes at the time suggested that this film should be advertised as: "Garbo Coughs!"Cukor (who had already directed the classicDinner at Eight (1933), and would go on to make further screen greats such asThe Philadelphia Story (1940)andMy Fair Lady (1964)), captured the most exquisite, poetic, restrained performance of he great screen actress.Speechless and frozen in fear, Elliott with enormous eyes calls out in a stuttering whisper: "Mom, Mom, Mom, Michael, Michael, Mom.Shirtless in front of his mirror, he flexes his bronzed muscles.His tall Texan figure, taken with a telephoto lens, bobs through he densely-crowded, anonymous sea of people on Fifth Avenue." But then he added one vital piece of information: "I do know where he""s gonna be" - the next arms deal would occur at the Staten Island Ferry building at 11:00 am.