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...senior, and she vigorously shook her gorgeous blonde head, exclaiming "No, not at all." There was a story behind that, we felt sure, but before we could inquire further she was whisked away from the dressing table on which we were sitting, and hurried through the packed throng outside, Garbo-fashion...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...
...pure romance." If Masks had been published anonymously, readers could have deduced that its author had led a sheltered life but had not been sufficiently protected from far-fetched fiction of the baser sort. Rewritten into cinemantics, it might be palmed off as Art, but it would need a Garbo to complete the illusion...
...Council of State King Gustaf of Sweden decorated Cinemactress Greta Garbo with the nation's gold medal litteris et artibus, highest Swedish award for artistic achievement...
Asked what feminine screen star she admired most, she replied without hesitation that it was Garbo. "Garbo has everything, beauty, personality, and tal-talent," she exclaimed. Of male celebrities she termed Paul Muni "the most brilliant actor in Hollywood...