comedy-drama

Garbo Talks is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, and Carrie Fisher, with a cameo appearance by Betty Comden as Greta Garbo.

one of a rare breed of American rock labels

Garbo Talks is actually one of a rare breed of American rock labels, but still has to fight the same battles.

conversational style

The book is written in a conversational style, sometimes transcribed from audiotapes.

a mixture of musical styles ranging from swing and ragtime variations to more contemporary rock

The musical, which tracks Garbo's life from born Greta Gustafson's modest youth through the glamorous Hollywood years to the late 1980s in New York, is a mixture of musical styles ranging from swing and ragtime variations to more contemporary rock.

cinematic

The narration style is cinematic, influenced by Bret Easton Ellis, Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Atom Egoyan.

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It has an array of genres, ranging from poetry and prose to serious solos and extemporaneous speaking (short speech based on ongoing events).