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...GARBO TALKED! The death of the legendary film actress will bring to life a secret biography, based on rare interviews, that spent the past 14 years locked in a vault. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish Garbo, by the author Antoni Gronowicz, a longtime friend, who died five years ago. Withheld while Garbo was alive, it contains reminiscences about her childhood in Sweden and her relationships with mentor Mauritz Stiller, conductor Leopold Stokowski and others. In it, Garbo reflects on the tales that "women chased her more often and more persistently" than men. Another associate, film scholar Raymond Daum...
SHOW BUSINESS: Remembering the real Greta Garbo...
From then on, and despite headline-grabbing flirtations with John Gilbert and Leopold Stokowski, Garbo became in effect the indentured mistress of her movie studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This most galvanizing of actresses was the most passive of stars. At MGM's urging, the young Garbo slimmed down, had her teeth capped, adjusted her hairline. Her most enduring studio ally was her doting cinematographer, William Daniels. Garbo must have felt comfortable, surrounded by MGM's middlebrow high gloss. She may not have cared that its gentility suffocated her films, so long as she could breathe her artistry into them...
...alone, in an acting empyrean, in George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with...
...Faced Woman, Garbo exits a cocktail party and says brightly, "I look forward to my return." She never did return; this amiable 1941 comedy was her last film. For years she was reported to be mulling beguiling projects (on the lives of St. Teresa of Avila, Eleanora Duse, Dorian Gray) from eminent auteurs (Max Ophuls, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles). Eventually, the vacation became permanent, and Garbo's only pictures were those snapped on the fly by avid paparazzi. Now the camera was not a lover but a predator. Still, her withdrawal was a good and gracious career move. By refusing...