"Garbo Is No Saint Joan"

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 28, 23 December 1938, Page 15

"Garbo Is No Saint Joan"

JTPOKS as though Greta Garbo won't get her heart’s desire to bring George Bernard Shaw’s "Saint Joan" to the screen. Gabriel Pascal, producer of "Pygmalion," says she isn’t the type. He is the ‘Hungarian to whom Shaw

has entrusted his filming of his plays, and he recently visited Hollywood to cut "Pygmalion" for its American release. fe is also arranging for the production of other Shaw plays, namely, "Saint Joan" and "The Devil’s Disciple." "As | see Saint Joan," he said, "she is a peasant girl who has a great light within which inspires her to lead her men to battle. Miss Garbo is a Hollywood actress-a great artist,. mind you, but never Saint Joan. The Maid of Orleans should not be a Hollywood glamour girl nor even a great actress. She should he a simple, real, down ‘to earth peasant without false eyelashes’ and typical movie make-up."