Garbo, Greta: GREAT GARBO, THE.

Author: Payne, Robert
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 297
Illustrations: 122 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with jacket
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 815412231
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index.
Code: 6399

Price: $19.50

From the first frame Greta Garbo (1905-1990) awed moviegoers with her ethereal beauty and palpable presence. Rising to stardom between two world wars, Garbo appeared at a time when she was most needed. From the frenetic twenties through the numbing dreariness of the Great Depression, she epitomized the woman for whom the world so desperately longed - a human goddess, hauntingly mortal and perfectly immortal. This heavily illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905–1990) offers both a biography and a discussion of her very special mystique. In his "candid, perceptive portrait of Hollywood's most mysterious star" (Publishers Weekly) from 1976, Robert Payne describes how Garbo's timeless beauty worked its magic in such films as Flesh and the Devil, Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka. Full-page film stills and publicity photos show the transformation of working-class girl Greta Gustafsson into a Hollywood bit player and then into an icon of cinema glamour.