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Greta Garbo by Clarence Sinclair Bull for MGM, 1931

lucynic83:

On Easter Sunday, April 15, 1990 at 11:30 a.m Greta Lovisa Gustafsson died at the New York Hospital.

It seemed, at first, as if there might be hope. Her friends were in frantic touch with Jane Gunther - were the treatments doing anything?
“She’s magic, she’s just magic,” Gunther told them all. “She’s so beautiful.” Jane thought she looked transcendent, almost beatific. Gray Reisfield was with her constantly. She was in little pain, but when pneumonia set in, there was nothing more to be done.

Each year at winter’s end, all living creatures are filled with a deep longing for spring. At Easter, in Swedish folklore, the animals gather to watch the great crane dance and to think no more of struggling: Instead, both the winged and those who had no wings wanted to raise themselves eternally, lift themselves above the clouds, seek that which was hidden beyond them, leave the oppressive body that dragged them down to earth, and soar away toward the infinite.
- Selma Lagerlöf 

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Greta Garbo in Mysterious Lady (1928).

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Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs (1928).

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bridiequilty:

Greta Garbo in Wild Orchids (1929)

bridiequilty:

I want to praise Garbo!

I do not enjoy most films because I am deaf. But the other evening I went to see Anna Karenina and was captivated and thrilled - despite the fact that I couldn’t understand a single word. That’s how marvellous Garbo is. There are people who say she is not really beautiful in the true sense of the word. What do they mean? She radiates beauty. She has such incredibly beautiful eyes. For someone like me who cannot hear, Garbo’s absolutely marvellous: her face speaks, it is as though she were performing in a pantomime. And her face is so expressive. It hardly matters that I cannot hear what she says, since she speaks with her heart and her movements and gestures mean that words become superfluous.

Margaret Kelly
44 Clara Street, San Francisco. 

A letter to a US newspaper c. 1935.

bridiequilty:

Garbo was created by GARBO! True, such associates as Stiller, Thalberg, Adrian and indeed the entire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer concern, provided their influences and guidance which modelled this relatively unknown Swedish actress into a world figure…but Greta Garbo herself, must in the final accounting, bear the responsibility for the creation—and perpetuation—of the legendary image she has become. It is HER face, HER talent, HER strength, will-power, and unerring instinct patterns, which, nearly twenty-five years after her last professional performance, still causes the name of GARBO to hold such an allure that her slightest move will still make newspaper columns all over the world. 

- William Stephens in 1967

Grattis på födelsedagen Greta Lovisa Gustafsson | 18 September, 1905 - 15 April, 1990

deforest:

by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931.

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“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”

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lucynic83:

She often did unexpected things. In the gambling casino scene, when she drops her fan and De Varville makes her pick it up, she made a remarkable movement, almost like something in a dance, like Isadora. She didn’t kneel to pick it up; she bent sideways in the most beautiful way.

- Dir. George Cukor on Greta Garbo (Camille 1936)

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