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Author : Sven Broman
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816155866
Author : Raymond W. Daum
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780060164928
Reminiscences of conversations with Garbo from her companion on her New York walks are combined with an anecdotal biography to offer an affectionate portrait of the star
Author : Raymond W. Daum
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060923556
After meeting Greta Garbo at a party in the early 1960s, Daum was invited by the great actress to accompany her on her strolls aroung Manhattan. The two became close friends, and Daum began to keep notes of Garbo's comments about everything from life in the city to how to make coffee. Daum's reminiscences are linked by Muse's anecdotal biography, based on original interviews and archival material never before published. 75 photographs.
Author : P Renoir
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
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Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on 18th September 1905, in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden was an actress during the '20s and '30s. Garbo was nominated 3 times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, having received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". The American Film Institute ranked Garbo 5th on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema during 1999. Greta launched her career with a secondary role in the Swedish movie The Saga of Gösta Berling in 1924. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who took her to Hollywood the following year. Garbo soon attracted attention with her first American silent film, Torrent (1926) then her performance in Flesh and the Devil (1927), her third motion picture, made her an international star. Greta's first talking movie was Anna Christie (1930), to which MGM enticed the public with the tagline "Garbo talks!" having starred in Romance that same year. Greta received the first of 3 Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in these films, Academy rules then allowing for a performer to receive a single nomination for their work in more than one picture. Garbo's success allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract during 1932, having become increasingly selective about her roles, her next pictures including Mata Hari (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), and Queen Christina (1933). Many critics and film historians regard Greta's performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) to be her finest, leading to her 2nd Academy Award nomination.
Author : Cameron Crowe
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9780571203864
The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2024-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250858763
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | One of Literary Hub’s most anticipated books of 2021 Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshipped her “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious, and the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world—and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed—was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe’s. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood at age nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world’s most famous actress. In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the world—her desperate, futile striving to be “left alone.” He takes us through the films themselves, from M-G-M’s early presentation of her as a “vamp”—her overwhelming beauty drawing men to their doom, a formula she loathed—to the artistic heights of Camille and Ninotchka (“Garbo Laughs!”), by way of Anna Christie (“Garbo Talks!”), Mata Hari, and Grand Hotel. He examines her passive withdrawal from the movies, and the endless attempts to draw her back. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New York—“a hermit about town”—and the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. Her relationships with her famous co-star John Gilbert, with Cecil Beaton, with Leopold Stokowski, with Erich Maria Remarque, with George Schlee—were they consummated? Was she bisexual? Was she sexual at all? The whole world wanted to know—and still wants to know. In addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls “A Garbo Reader,” brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo—from other people’s memoirs and interviews (ranging from Ingmar Bergman and Tallulah Bankhead to Roland Barthes); from literature (she turns up everywhere—in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, in Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene); from the letters of Marianne Moore and Alice B. Toklas; from countless songs and cartoons and articles of merchandise. Most extraordinary of all are the pictures—more than 250 ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshots—all reproduced here in superb duotone. Garbo had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and makeup, yet her story is essentially the story of a face—and the camera.
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1990
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Fotografier af: Russell Ball, Cecil Beaton, Atelier Binder, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Olof Ekstrand, Arnold Genthe, Henry B. Goodwin, George Hoyningen-Huene, George Hurrell, Ruth Harriet Louise, Edward Steichen
Author : Barry Paris
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816641826
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka. In this richly illustrated volume, renowned biographer Barry Paris offers the definitive biography of this fascinating and complex woman -- from her hardscrabble childhood in Sweden to her arrival in Hollywood at the age of nineteen, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her unintentional retirement from filmmaking at the height of her fame, from the new life she crafted for herself to her surprising, and failed, plans for a comeback. Drawing on hitherto unavailable material, including one hundred hours of tape-recorded conversations, fifty years of correspondence, and interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, Paris reveals the real woman behind the enigma.
Author : George Cukor
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781578063871
Collected interviews with the director of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady
Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101635479
Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.