TCM Star of the Month April 2019: Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (l.) and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (1939; airs Friday at 10:00 PM)

Now that we're in the first full week of a new month, it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This time out, it's Greta Garbo. However, this month is also a bit different. Since this month is the 25th anniversary of TCM, the channel is running a bunch of special programming features over the course of the month. That means instead of the usual one night a week every week for a month, we get Garbo's movies five straight nights in prime time over the course of one week, and this first week of April is it.

The Garbo movies will be running roughly chronologically, at least for four of the nights. (Thursday has three silents and Queen Christina.) So tonight is several silents, while Ninotchka, pictured above, doesn't show up until the final night.

Interestingly, I apparently hadn't ever used any photos to illustrate a post about a Garbo movie, according to a brief search of the blog, so I had to do another image search for the Ninotchka photo.