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English
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This lavishly-illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905-1990) provides a biographical background of the star and an analysis of her very special mystique. Payne describes how Garbo's timeless beauty worked its magic in such films as Flesh and the Devil, Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka. Remarkable photos show the transformation of working-class girl Greta Gustafsson into a Hollywood...
2) Garbo
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her"--
When she arrived in Hollywood Greta Garbo spoke barely a word of English, yet in sixteen short years, she managed to infiltrate the world's subconscious. She appeared in only two dozen Hollywood movies, and ended her film career when she was thirty-six. Gottlieb retells her life,...
6) Garbo talks
Publisher
Metro-Goldway-Mayer
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A woman whose days are numbered has one request--to meet Greta Garbo. This comedy relates her son's often hilarious search for the elusive screen legend.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
"No other twentieth-century artist in or out of film so captivated the world or spent so much energy trying to hide from it. To bring her out of hiding, Barry Paris draws on a wealth of hitherto unavailable material - ranging from Garbo's drama school notebooks and her unpublished letters to an astonishing set of a hundred taped conversations, recorded during her later years in New York, as well as interviews with her surviving friends and family...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A Life Apart is the first comprehensive biography to fully capture Greta Garbo's hidden personal life as well as her role as a film icon from a female perspective. Brimming with rare photos and startling new information - based on unpublished personal letters and conversations with Garbo's closest friends, coworkers, and lifelong associates - A Life Apart dramatically deconstructs the myriad misconceptions surrounding her life. Intimate, compelling,...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Based on ten years of in depth archival research in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and France, Ideal Beauty is the definitive biography of Greta Garbo as well as a major study of Euro-American concepts of ideal female beauty in the years between World War One and World War Two, encompassing the flapper era and the lost generation of the 1920s and 1930s. Ideal Beauty begins with Garbo's devastating childhood in Stockholm as the child of poor...
14) Greta Garbo
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Series
Dutton Vista pictureback volume 16
Publisher
E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1965
Language
English
18) Garbo talks
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A dying mother's last wish to meet silent cinema star Greta Garbo costs her son his job, his marriage and his sanity.
Publisher
Skira
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The never-before-published wardrobe of a timeless star, for lovers of fashion, photography and film history. Greta Garbos influence over fashion has transcended time. Her dresses, suits, impeccably-tailored coats with a slightly masculine look and the indispensable accessories (shoes, bags, glasses, foulards) has created a style emulated, imitated, even occasionally reviled, but never fully examined. For the first time a catalogue of great glamour...