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Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-
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Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990.
Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990 -- Influence.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Sweden -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
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Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-
Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990.
Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990 -- Influence.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Sweden -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
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Garbo
/ Robert Gottlieb.
by
Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
791.43028 G214g
Subjects
Garbo
,
Greta
,
1905-1990
.
Garbo
,
Greta
,
1905-1990
--
Influence
.
Motion picture actors and actresses
--
Sweden
--
Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses
--
United States
--
Biography.
Motion pictures
--
History
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780374298357 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
437 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Summary:
"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, Graham Greene, and 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
--
250 or so ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshots
--
all reproduced here in superb duotone. She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of
Garbo
is essentially the story of a face and the camera. Forty years after her career ended, she was still being tormented by unrelenting paparazzi wherever she went."--Publisher.
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