#mimi pollak

[allgarbo]

In 1923 Mimi became engaged to Nils Lundell, a Stockholm actor and director, and she married him in early 1927. In her letters to Mimi before the marriage—and after it—Greta expressed undying love for Mimi, depression with her own life, dislike of Hollywood once she moved there in 1925, and the hope that Mimi might become her permanent partner, despite the obstacles involved in achieving that goal. Above all, Greta didn’t want to lose Mimi, who was her major Swedish confidante until she met Countess Hörke Wachtmeister in 1929 on the steamship returning to Sweden from New York. Sometimes Mimi wavered in her commitment to Nils, as when she wrote a love letter to Greta from Venice in 1924 that awakened “a storm of longing” in Greta, who was then employed at Dramaten. She told Mimi that if she took twenty baths a day, she wouldn’t forget her. To her, their relationship was mystical, existing on a spiritual plane as well as a physical one. She wanted to put a world of longing in her letters for Mimi to experience. The letters sometimes refer to other women. Greta worried about Mimi’s involvement with Doris Nelson, a Stockholm actress who resembled Greta, while she admitted that she had been spending time with a stylish actress named Frau Mayer. But Frau Meyer was leaving Stockholm, and Greta feared that she would never see her again. “Now I believe,” she wrote, “that men live in a little hell when they see a soft, stylish woman and can’t have her.” She advised Mimi that they should stop criticizing men for their aggressively sexual natures because she had experienced an overwhelming sexual attraction to Frau Mayer. (Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo) Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928)

#greta garbo #the mysterious lady #mimi pollak #quotes #*

[djavlaalskadeunge]

Letter 33

8 nov 1984

"Dearest Mimi,

I wish I could accept your wonderful offer to stay in your home for Christmas. Unfortunately. I am not very well and not able to make any plans right now.

It is such horrible waste of life to be out of order. Only God knows how I would love to be with you. Thank you dear little Mimosasan.

G."

#greta garbo #garbo #mimi pollak #old hollywood

[celluloidstyle]

pump up the volume (1990)

director: allan moyle

costume designer: michael abbot

production design: robb wilson king

set dec: tina treglia (peterson)

cinematographer: walt lloyd

BEING WEIRD ISN'T ENOUGH not sure why i like this pin, but i like it.

this film takes place on the cusp between the 80s and the 90s, but i loved that these kids drove these 60s/70s(?) cars, i think to signify that they were low income and couldn't afford modern cars? but i love the atmosphere in this shot.

not the greatest screencap, but i adored everything janie (lala sloatman) wore. the cat-eye glasses, the oversized pink pearl earrings, the ponytail scarf. even though i related to nora's artsy side, i wanted to be janie.

mark (christian slater) is like two different people. at home, he wears cool retro bowling shirts embroidered with the name "dick" and sasses his parents, but at school he wears bland clothing (like he wants to blend into the background) and acts all shy.

i also just really loved mimi kennedy as mark's mom, marla, using a teacup to ash her cigarette into, i just thought it was so posh!

again, loving janie's dangly statement earrings, and the colour combo with her floral bolero (?) and sweet pink dress. i didn't love nora's (samantha mathis) outfit as much, but i was intrigued by the piece she wears over her dress. it ties at the back of her neck, and i think again on her lower back, so it's like a... halter vest? the turtle necklace is pretty dope, and though you can't see it in this shot, she is also wearing purple and white striped tights.

paige's (cheryl pollak) bedroom is a dream! the floral wallpaper and the white bed are so lovely, but the seafoam green radio really makes the colour scheme pop.

man i wish i had a teacher this cool! ellen greene as jan emerson (do they call her miss emerson in the movie? i can't remember), wears the coolest outfits, and she is introduced in this amazing mustard suit accessorized with a turquoise bolo tie! the look is amazing, but it also alerts us that this film takes place in arizona.

paige, doing her WASP thing in an oversized sweater over a blouse, with a string of pearls. it's the necklace that does it for me.

i mostly just wanted to see how many celebrities i could identify in this shot: keanu reeves, johnny depp, george michael, kirk cameron, corey haim, richard grieco... (stole this image from imdb as it was much clearer than my screenshot)

i forgot that plaid wallpaper was a thing and i think it's due for a comeback. particularly loving the plaid (shirt) on plaid (wallpaper) in this scene, so cozy, like a cabin!

so many things to love in this scene: number one, the heart curtains; number two, the kitten sweatshirt (the kittens look like they might be puffy and i can feel it in my mind); number three the "homework causes brain damage" sign on the wall--classic! number four, the clear lamp filled with gumballs? and the cow hanging from it! number five and six, the blue radio and the clear phone! i want one!

did you notice that the tissue box in the highschool staff room is the same as the tissue box in the depressed student's room? do you think it was the same box?

nora's room reminded me of my own room in highschool-- walls plastered with images, and plenty of candles. i think nora might have been one of the prototypes for the manic pixie dreamgirl.

Believe It Or Not I Care

mazz's (billy morrisette) denim and leather look is good.

an example of one of mark's drab shirts, but also nora's completely adorable velvet blouse with a peter pan collar! also, i'm learning that the next time i wear a collared shirt, i need to add a long statement necklace.

so this scene is near the end of the film, and i loved mark's shirt here. i also realized that it's more of a cooler, bolder look than he has previously worn to school, so i think it's supposed to symbolize mark coming out of his shell and revealing more of his true self at school/in public. look at me, i get things.

finally, loving this floral blouse and braided leather suspender on miss emerson. i would probably wear this.

BONUS here's a picture of drew barrymore at "an event" for pump up the volume (according to imdb), i'm assuming it's the premiere, just looking cool and badass. i need that jacket.

another bonus: this adorable promo photo of christian & samantha <3

anyways, most of these pics are my own screenshots, but you should check out higher resolution images on imdb. i couldn't find any articles about the wardrobe in this film, but i did find this 30th anniversary article that was interesting.

#pump up the volume #1990 #nineties #nineties films #christian slater #samantha mathis #allan moyle #lala sloatman #mimi kennedy #cheryl pollak #ellen greene #billy morrisette #drew barrymore

[bkenber]

Ultimate Rabbit Audio Commentary on 'Pump Up The Volume'

Okay everyone, The Ultimate Rabbit is doing something new here, at least for him. I am doing my first ever audio commentary, and it is for the 1990 film, “Pump Up The Volume.” Written and directed by Allan Moyle, it stars Christian Slater as Mark Hunter, a high school student who has been uprooted from his hometown in New York and now lives with his parents in Paradise Hills, Arizona. Depressed…

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#1990 Movies #1990&039;s Movies #Ahmet Zappa #Allan Moyle #Andy Romano #Annie Ross #Anthony Lucero #Arizona #Audio Commentary #Billy Morrissette #Cheryl Pollak #Christian Slater #Coming of Age Movies #Lala Sloatman #Lin Shaye #Mimi Kennedy #Movie Commentary #New Line Cinema #Pump Up The Volume #Samantha Mathis #Santa Clarita #Saugus #Saugus High School #SC Entertainment #Scott Paulin #Seth Green #Teen Movies

[byneddiedingo]

Maj-Britt Nilsson in Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist, Stig Olin, Mimi Pollak, Renée Björling, Gunnar Olsson. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, Herbert Grevenius. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Production design: Nils Svenwall. Film editing: Oscar Rosander. Music: Erik Nordgren. Maj-Britt Nilsson gives a stunning performance as the ballerina haunted by death -- both the literal death of the young man with whom she once had the titular summer interlude and the slow death of her career, which depends on the youthful vitality she can feel beginning to slip away. Like Ingmar Bergman's earlier To Joy (1950), which starred Nilsson and many of the same actors, it's a fable about art and life, about the conflict of the public persona of a career with the personal needs of an intimate relationship. Unlike To Joy, in which Nilsson's character is subordinate to that of her musician husband, Bergman has shifted the focus to the woman -- a focus that he would maintain for most of his remaining career. Summer Interlude may be his first great film, and Nilsson's ability to move from the winsome young Marie -- sometimes evoking the young Audrey Hepburn -- to the toughened, successful prima ballerina is remarkable. Perhaps the most startling moment comes when the older Marie removes her stage makeup, which has the effect of making her look older and harder, to reveal the remaining traces of the younger woman -- a fine reversal of the usual film trope of removing the makeup to reveal the effects of aging. 

#Summer Interlude #Ingmar Bergman #Maj-Britt Nilsson

[mymotherlaughs]

#book covers #garbo #mimi pollak

[ozu-teapot]

Sommarlek (Summer Interlude) | Ingmar Bergman | 1951

Mimi Pollak

#Mimi Pollak #Ingmar Bergman #Bergman #Sommarlek #Summer Interlude #1951

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Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) (Illicit Interlude) (1951) Ingmar Bergman

April 30th 2022

#summer interlude #sommarlek #illicit interlude #1951 #ingmar bergman #maj-britt nilsson #birger malmsten #georg funkquist #alf kjellin #douglas hage #annalisa ericson #stig olin #renee bjorling #gunnar olsson #john botvid #julia caesar #mimi pollak #summerplay

[vampsandflappers]

A wonderful early, haunting photo of Greta Garbo in Berlin in 1925. Photograph by Alexander Binder.

"[I am] always so alone, so alone. Oh God, it is so awful. This ugly, ugly America, all just machinery, it is soul destroying. I never go out, only home to my boring little hotel… The only thing that gives me pleasure is to go to the bank and send some money to my family… I don’t want to meet people from the films and drink and talk about things I don’t wish to talk about… People are very curious about me in the studio. Everyone stares at me and asks questions… I am sure they think I am a bit strange… the glamour with which we surround the American film world hardly exists here. There is nothing elegant or beautiful here."

--Greta Garbo, letter in 1925 to Mimi Pollak

#greta garbo #garbo #alexander binder #1920s #silent film #vintage glamour #silent films #silent age #silent era #jazz age #roaring twenties #vintage hollywood #mimi pollak

[yourdailyqueer]

Mimi Pollak (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 9 April 1903  

DOD: 11 August 1999

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Occupation: Actress, theatre director

Note: In 1948 became the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids).

#Mimi Pollak #lgbt history #bisexual history #female #bisexual #1903 #rip #historical #jewish #Ashkenazi Jewish #actor #Theatre Director #director #first #popular #popular post #old hollywood

[shorthistory]

September 18th, 1905 : Birth of Greta Garbo :

 Also called “the divine”, she was a famous actress in Hollywood. She is born in Sweden and has been naturalized American.

She played in many film such as Ninotchka, Mata Hari, Queen Christine, Grand Hotel.

Greta Garbo was bisexual and engaged in notable romantic relationships with men and women. She would have tended to prefer women, and to lose interest in sexuality by maturing. It seems that Greta Garbo remained single for the sake of Swedish actress Mimi Pollak (she always loved her), with whom she had an epistolary relationship that lasted sixty years. At the birth of Mimi Pollak's son, she sent this telegram to her: "Incredibly proud to be a father"

#short history #History #greta garbo #film #movie #actress #hollywood #usa #america #sweden #bisexual #lgbt #mimi pollak #1905

[allgarbo]

(...) After their reunion in 1962, Greta began writing Mimi Pollak again. Unlike with her previous correspondence, her brief, somewhat distracted letters from this period were written primarily in English. But like her letters of the past, they described similar routines: how she virtually lived on carrots, why she did not dare come home to Sweden (she feared she would be recognized). Early in 1975, she sent Mimi a poem she had written about not being able to touch the hand of her friend—someone, if times had been different, she might have been walking through life with.

Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934)

#greta garbo #the painted veil #mimi pollak #quotes #*

[djavlaalskadeunge]

Letter 01

Letter to Mimosa in Karlstad.

"Damn these papers too. So we talked about you. We decided that next term we'd go out on the town with you. Tableau!! A dog next to me. He looks at me with big wise eyes. Reminds me of loyalty. Think if there might be such a thing. Gustafson philosopher!! - It is supposed to be a exclamation mark on the line before. Will your friendship leave me when you see my handwriting?? Goodbye Mimmie. I sit and think about things. Can you forgive? What will they say at home? All day Jess has been out. I let out a distraught laugh. Ha - ha - ha. Mona is like a little velcro. Do you know what it is? Ha - wretched Mona!! I'm desperately searching my brain for something pleasant to write you about. Well, I know something. I smoke. Have you seen a smoking chimney? Not!? In any case, I am reminded of one such; pretty much all days, that is, when I'm not at home. In this smoke slowly curling towards the sky I see your image. I'm going to be a writer. Hear what a bitter mockery of myself. What an abyss in my inner(?) shall not be then. Try and think about it. I am a simple person not weak for phrases. That is. So Simple and natural.

Yes

It all seems a little confusing, but only a little.

Little dear Papa Julius: A thousand greetings and a little kiss. Don't show Mrs. Mitzi this. Greta.

Greta Gustafson. Greta Gustafson classy lady can write can write forwards and backwards forwards and backwards....?"

#greta garbo #Mimi Pollak

[silvercreations]

[long post, I know, but read through for excerpts of Greta’s heartbreaking letters to her friend/crush Mimi]

The photo at top, taken in spring of 1924, shows students of the Royal Swedish Dramatic Theatre School (known as The Dramaten); Greta Garbo is on the far right, and Mimi Pollak is on her left.

Garbo and Pollak met in 1922 and maintained a close friendship even after Greta departed for Hollywood; Greta traveled back to Sweden to visit Mimi several times, and they would write one another often over the course of nearly 70 years.  

Mimi saved many of those letters; they were released by the Pollak estate and shown as part of an exhibition at the Swedish Postal Museum in Stockholm in 2005.  The correspondence reveals an incredibly tender and loving relationship between the two— and that Greta perhaps had a bit of a one-sided crush on Mimi, who she affectionately called “little Mimosa.”

Facsimiles of the letters (and more on Greta & Mimi’s relationship) were published in Djävla Älskade Unge by Tin Andersen Axell in 2005. I’m still hoping against hope for an English version; until then, I’ll cling to the bittersweet handful of fragments that have been translated.* All of the following are from Greta to Mimi:

1924, in response to a letter from Mimi:

The letter from you has aroused a storm of longing within me.

1924, shortly after Mimi married:

I dream of seeing you and discovering whether you still care as much about your old bachelor. I love you, little Mimosa.

1925, shortly after arriving in Hollywood:

If you only knew how homesick I am… I still can’t quite describe my feelings in letters, but I don’t think that I will ever marry. You have no idea how it hurts to be as confused and unhappy as I am. I don’t want to see anyone.

1926, shortly before the release of “Flesh & The Devil” (Garbo’s first film with John Gilbert):

There has been a lot in the papers about us [Garbo & Gilbert] but I cannot do what they expect me to. It does not suit me to be married…

In 1927, shortly after Mauritz Stiller left MGM, Greta wrote in a letter to Mimi that she longed for a “bachelor’s” apartment in Stockholm, a good bottle of champagne, and Mimi by her side (Swenson, 161).

1930, after Mimi wrote Greta to tell of her pregnancy:

We cannot help our nature, as God has created it. But I have always thought you and I belonged together.

That letter was filled with conflicted emotions; Garbo seemed to, as biographer Karen Swenson writes, “…yearn for something that was lost along the way. She professed having neither the time nor the inclination to alter her course. She anticipated being alone because, she claimed, it was in her character— she could do nothing else. Yet it amused Greta to ponder what ‘Nisse’ (Mimi’s husband, Nils) would think if he ever read her letter— would he think Greta a ‘jilted’ lover?” (Swenson, 234-235)

Then, in 1930, after Mimi gave birth to her son, Greta wrote:

Incredibly proud to be a father.

Finally, the most heartbreaking (to me, anyway): In early 1975, “she [Greta] sent Mimi a poem she had written about not being able to touch the hand of her friend— someone, if times had been different, she might have been walking through life with.” (Swenson, 542)

*Translated excerpts from here and corroborated in Greta Garbo: A Life Apart by Karen Swenson, which is also where I sourced the paraphrased statements.

#Greta Garbo #Mimi Pollak #yep that's the sound of my heart breaking #just look at the way she's looking at her #and those letters #especially the poem #i would give anything to read that poem #sighhhhhh #otp material #classic hollywood #queer hollywood #⛵

[frankenpagie]

6.3.19

#film #letterboxd #watched #autumn sonata #ingmar bergman #ingrid bergman #liv ullmann #lena nyman #halvar bjòrk #erland josephson #gunnar björnstrand #linn ullmann #mimi pollak

[the1920sinpictures]

December, 1928 Greta Garbo meeting her friend Mimi Pollak during her first visit back to Sweden. From My Vintage Dreams, FB.