She also began performing as a solo cabaret artist, at Garbo's in Cape Town and at Club 58 in Hillbrow.
She has also appeared as expert on film history in over a half dozen documentaries including Gloria Swanson: The Greatest Star (AMC), Kevin Brownlow's Garbo for Turner Classic Movies, several episodes of Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, narrated by Christopher Plummer (2010), and in 2012 she appeared in Mark Cousin's production of The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
Gilbert hires a paparazzo (Howard Da Silva) to show him Garbo's apartment, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market.
“That's still a mystery ... I was a nobody in Detroit. Why Garbo? Well, she was Scandinavian — and so was I”, responded Randolph.
Lindahl was described by pageant director Eric Morley as having "the haunting beauty and intrigue of a Greta Garbo".
The film was produced by the Lianhua Film Company, and proved an early success for the studio, in no small part due to the on screen combination of Jin and Ruan, the so called "Valentino" and "Garbo" of Shanghai cinema, and who starred together in several vehicles before Ruan's suicide in 1935.
At Florence he commissioned a tapestry from cartoons by Andrea del Sarto and Raffaellino del Garbo, which is conserved in the diocesan museum at Cortona.
The film was released on DVD on 6 September 2005 by Warner Home Video as part of the Greta Garbo collection also featuring the film Flesh and the Devil on the same disc.
His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996).
Samuel Goldwyn had introduced Anna Sten, who he hoped would become the "new Garbo", earlier in 1934 in the film Nana, then showcased her in this film, and tried again in 1935 with The Wedding Night.