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.After Holly had assaulted him at the end of the previous film, he brought a restraining order against her to keep her 50 yards away at all times.Gay Nineties bourgeois couples dressed in elegant ballroom gowns and suits waltz dizzingly ogether as the "Merry Widow Waltz" plays." When the interview ended, Bonds complimented the apes: "by their intelligence and their good humor, the two so-called ""ape-o-nauts"" have already captured the hearts of the entire American nation."Dr.Melik: "You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or hot fudge?"Dr.Agon: "Those were thought to be unhealthy.Precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true."Dr.Melik: "Incredible."When informed of his whereabouts and what had happened o him by Dr.Melik, filmed in silent-movie style (with no dialogue), Miles reacted with incredulity -- ragtime piano music played in he background.