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Looking For Garbo
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Author : JON JAMES. MILLER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Looking For Garbo written by JON JAMES. MILLER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Fiction categories.
Garbo
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Author : Robert Gottlieb
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Garbo written by Robert Gottlieb and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Performing Arts categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | One of Esquire's 125 best books about Hollywood 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. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world—and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed—was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe’s. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world’s most famous actress. In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the world—her desperate, futile striving to be “left alone.” He takes us through the films themselves, from M-G-M’s early presentation of her as a “vamp”—her overwhelming beauty drawing men to their doom, a formula she loathed—to the artistic heights of Camille and Ninotchka (“Garbo Laughs!”), by way of Anna Christie (“Garbo Talks!”), Mata Hari, and Grand Hotel. He examines her passive withdrawal from the movies, and the endless attempts to draw her back. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New York—“a hermit about town”—and the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. Her relationships with her famous co-star John Gilbert, with Cecil Beaton, with Leopold Stokowski, with Erich Maria Remarque, with George Schlee—were they consummated? Was she bisexual? Was she sexual at all? The whole world wanted to know—and still wants to know. In addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls “A Garbo Reader,” brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo from other people’s memoirs and interviews, ranging from Ingmar Bergman and Tallulah Bankhead to Roland Barthes; from literature (she turns up everywhere—in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and the letters of Marianne Moore and Alice B. Toklas); from countless songs and cartoons and articles of merchandise. Most extraordinary of all are the pictures—250 or so ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshots—all reproduced here in superb duotone. She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of Garbo is essentially the story of a face and the camera. Forty years after her career ended, she was still being tormented by unrelenting paparazzi wherever she went. Includes Black-and-White Photographs
Garbo
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Author : Barry Paris
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1995
Garbo written by Barry Paris and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Draws on letters, tape-recorded conversations, and interviews to discuss Garbo's life in Sweden, her retirement from film, and the paranoia that imprisoned her the last fifty years of her life.
The Great Garbo
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Author : Robert Payne
language : en
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Release Date : 2002-09-06
The Great Garbo written by Robert Payne and has been published by Cooper Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 bit player, and later into an icon of cinema glamour.
Garbo
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Author : Alexander Walker
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1980
Garbo written by Alexander Walker and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Biography of film star Greta Garbo, covering her fifteen years with MGM before her unexpected retirement in the early 1940's.
Garbo
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Author : John Bainbridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Garbo written by John Bainbridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with categories.
Conversations With Greta Garbo
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Author : Sven Broman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1992
Conversations With Greta Garbo written by Sven Broman and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Films Of Greta Garbo
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Author : Michael Conway
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Films Of Greta Garbo written by Michael Conway and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Greta Garbo
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Author : David Bret
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-25
Greta Garbo written by David Bret and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the male-oriented studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed, before or since. Be it producer, director, lover or journalist, Garbo called the shots, and when she decided that she was done with the whirlwind of life as Hollywood's darling she withdrew completely, leaving her public begging for an encore that never came. Though there have been numerous biographies of Garbo, this is the first to investigate fully the two so-called missing periods in the life of this most enigmatic of Hollywood stars: the first during the late 1920s, forcing MGM to employ a lookalike to conceal what was almost certainly a pregnancy; the second during World War II when Garbo was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathisers. It also analyses in detail the original, uncensored copies of Garbo's films - with the exception of The Divine Woman, of which no complete print survives - and offers substantial evidence that John Gilbert was not, in fact, the great love of her life. Rather her true affections lay with the gay, Sapphic and Scandinavian members of her very intimate inner circle. Using previously unsourced material, along with anecdotes from friends and colleagues that have never before been published, David Bret paints a rounded portrait of Garbo's childhood in Sweden, her rise to stardom and her all-too-brief reign as queen of MGM. Hers is a truly remarkable story, recounted here with warmth, intensity and unique insight.
Garbo
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Author : Norman J. Zierold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Garbo written by Norman J. Zierold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Biography & Autobiography categories.