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Close-up shot of Greta Garbo in The Divine Woman, 1928. From my collection.

#the divine woman #20's

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Greta Garbo in Conquest (1937)

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Queen Christina (1933)

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Greta Garbo, A Woman of Affairs, 1928

#a woman of affairs #20's

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Greta Garbo in a letter, April 1937.

#letters

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Greta Garbo in a letter to Hörke Wachtmeister, 1934.

#hörke wachtmeister #letters

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Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928) dir. Fred Niblo

#the mysterious lady #20's

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Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928) dir. Fred Niblo

#the mysterious lady #20's

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Greta Garbo in “The Saga of Gösta Berling” (1924)

"Garbo is all movement. First she gets the emotion, and out of the emotion comes the movement and out of the movement comes the dialogue. She's so perfect people say she can't act—she is so great.

Louis B. Mayer found her! Looking at Greta Garbo in the Swedish picture Gösta Berling, in Berlin, he knew as sure as he was alive that he had found a sexual symbol beyond his or anyone else's imagining. Here was a face as beautiful as Michelangelo's Mary of the Pietà, yet glowing with passion. The suffering of her soul was such that the American public would forgive her many affairs in Torrent, Garbo's first American picture. At last, marriage—the obstacle standing in the way between sex and pleasure—could be done away with. At last, here was an answer to young actresses who wanted to play good girls!

Also: You know, most directors, or at least all directors whom I've worked for, give the choreography, the action and the words, and leave your inner thoughts alone because on screen, like in life, a person is doing one thing and thinking another. Just as I'm talking to you now. You can see that in Garbo, who I think is the greatest actress in the world, you can see that along with her actions is this wonderful mysterious thought line moving below, but it's harmonious, she is at one with her thoughts." —Louise Brooks

(From Garbo by Robert Gottlieb, 2021)

#louise brooks #quotes #the saga of gosta berling #20's

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Greta Garbo and her mother in Sweden, 1928.

Despite the distance separating them, Anna kept in close touch with Greta, who had gone to the USA in 1925. They wrote letters to one another. Anna cut out articles that mentioned Greta in the Swedish press and sent them to Hollywood. And Greta sent home cuttings from American papers and photographs she got from MGM. A lady journalist from Vecko-Journalen (a Swedish woman's weekly) managed to call on Anna Gustafsson in her new flat in the autumn of 1928: “There was a framed photograph of her husband, who had died young. And there was a photo, too, of Alva [Garbo's sister], who died in 1926. But there was no picture of Greta, her daughter…” “I've got one here,” said Anna Gustafsson, holding up a locket round her neck with a photograph of Greta, a present from her daughter in Hollywood. “And I've got more pictures in here,” added the proud mother, pulling out a desk drawer stuffed with piles of stills that Garbo had sent home from her films. She did not dare put them on display – “Greta wouldn't like it…” […] “Yes, I do go and see Greta in the films. I went to the premiere of Anna Karenina. As someone who knows Greta very well, I could tell she was giving her utmost.” “So you were pleased with your daughter then, Mrs. Gustafsson?” “Yes, of course, I'm pleased. Mind you, they didn't need to do all that kissing…”

Conversations with Greta Garbo by Sven Broman

#🥺🥺🥺 #quotes #20's

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Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928) dir. Fred Niblo

#the mysterious lady #20's

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The Mysterious Lady (1928) dir. Fred Niblo

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Grand Hotel (1932)

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The Kiss (1929) dir. Jacques Feyder

#the kiss #20's

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Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929) dir. Jacques Feyder

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Greta Garbo, Ninotchka, 1939

#ninotchka #30's

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Greta Garbo, A Woman of Affairs, 1928

#a woman of affairs #20's