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Gone were the dark glasses, slouch hat and sullen manner. In sunny Portofino, a smiling, bareheaded Greta Garbo breezed ashore from Movie Producer Sam Spiegel's yacht Malahne, sent a crowd into camera-clicking ecstasies with a big "Hello," joined her shipmate for a lighthearted shopping spree and dinner at the Restaurant Pitosforo. Burbled the proprietor: "It was the Garbo that for many years I've dreamed of seeing. She appeared rejuvenated in spirit...
...Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without stirring a flicker of recognition: "With these rich people, all they really want is to recuperate from their last recuperation...
Michigan's Lenore LaFount Romney, 52, daughter of a federal radio commissioner under Calvin Coolidge. When Lenore moved to New York to study acting, George Romney, then working in Washington, courted her on weekends. By 1930, she was a bit player for MGM, appeared in movies with Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow. She was on the verge of signing a three-year contract-but George signed her up first. They were married in 1931, and Lenore is now the mother of four. When she gets settled in the Governor's mansion, Lenore wants to make "a real breakthrough...
...natural light and hand-held cameras in a simple and highly mobile technique. When hunting film clips, he will go to any amount of trouble to find the rare touches that make his documentaries distinctive. His award-winning Hollywood: The Golden Years contained dusty Swedish films of young Greta Garbo doing movie-house commercials for a Stockholm bakery...
Died. Jean-Gabriel Domergue, 73, slick Parisian portraitist of beautiful women, notably Greta Garbo, Michelle Morgan and Lucienne Boyer, whom he glorified in a light and decorative style; of a heart attack; in Paris...