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...seems in pain, yet amused byher misery, when she confesses to John Barrymore, "I want to be alone." That line, from the 1932 Grand Hotel, was often taken as Greta Garbo's autobiographical declaration. The unique actress remained above and apart from the Hollywood community in her 16 years there, and she compounded her aloof allure when, on quitting films at age 36, she took up residence in Manhattan and became the world's most famous, most observed recluse...
...screen beauty before they saw it crumble into mere middle-aged attractiveness. But she must also have known that her standing was secure. She saw that in 1941; we realize it today, as the world celebrates her centenary. There's a knowing, sumptuously illustrated book (Mark Vieira's Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy), a tribute in films and photographs at New York City's Scandinavia House, a monthlong retrospective of all her extant Hollywood films on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), a 10-disc DVD collection (Garbo: The Signature Collection) and a fine documentary (Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird's Garbo...
Tony Baekeland grew up with two competing family identities. His great-grandfather, Leo Baekeland, was the inventor of Bakelite and the "father of plastics." His parents fancied themselves aristocrats. They socialized with Greta Garbo and Tennessee Williams, the Duchess of Sutherland and Yasmin Aga Khan. But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony...
...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...
...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...