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...Chinese lady, from the teens to the 60s, and there was no No. 2. Against devastating odds, she made her name in silent films in the U.S., with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad, and abroad, starring in the amazing Anglo-German Piccadilly. Like Greta Garbo, Wong developed a gestural language for silent film and attached it to her already formidable screen presence. When sound came in, she wanted to stick around...
...even in a color-blind Hollywood. Saucy comedy, of the sort Jean Harlow personified, was out, as was the scalding, wiseacre melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck-style. Wong could flash a regal hauteur and, when called for, that sensuality. She could have played grand-dame roles of the sort essayed by Garbo - she certainly could match the Swede for fascination, and self-fascination - but not, say, Marlene Dietrich, whose awareness of her power over men was always comic and ironic...
...think that her regular demise was the last vengeance of racist screenwriters. Think again. Garbo, the most exalted Hollywood star of the period, died in most of her movies...
...hate to lose that.” Cell phones, I felt, were another instance of the demands made upon us by technology: Why should people just assume that they could telephone us whenever they liked? I liked being unreachable. It made me feel kind of like Greta Garbo. “Sellout,” I hissed at my roommate, but she only motioned at me to indicate that she had her earpiece...
...most valuable fixture in the show is 20-year-old Lauren Bacall. [She] has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle. Her personality is compounded partly of percolated Davis, Garbo, West, Dietrich, Harlow and Glenda Farrell, but more than enough of it is completely new to the screen. She has a javelinlike vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness. With these faculties, plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate...