Garbo

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"What she had you couldn't see with the naked
eye. It was something in her eyes, somen g
behind them that could reach out arid ?1 the
audience wha t she was thinking 1 ¦¦
—Clarence Brown, director of seven films
starring Greta Garbo, including Flesh
and the Devil and Anna Christie
Behind that most fabulous of faces was always a mys-
tery. In this extraordinary book the real Garbo is
revealed for the first time as the very human woman
she was.
Here, at last, is Antoni Gronowicz s long-awaited,
controversial, and unauthorized memoir of Garbo,
based on a long and intimate friendship.
Here are the haunting, candid details of her child-
hood; of her passionate affair with Mauritz Stiller, her
discoverer, mentor, and lover, who brought her to
Hollywood in 1925—at the invitation of Louis B.
Mayer—where her career took her to a stardom
which has never been equaled, while his own fortunes
collapsed; of her long and not always happy years as
the greatest and most... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"What she had you couldn't see with the naked
eye. It was something in her eyes, somen g
behind them that could reach out arid ?1 the
audience wha t she was thinking 1 ¦¦
—Clarence Brown, director of seven films
starring Greta Garbo, including Flesh
and the Devil and Anna Christie
Behind that most fabulous of faces was always a mys-
tery. In this extraordinary book the real Garbo is
revealed for the first time as the very human woman
she was.
Here, at last, is Antoni Gronowicz s long-awaited,
controversial, and unauthorized memoir of Garbo,
based on a long and intimate friendship.
Here are the haunting, candid details of her child-
hood; of her passionate affair with Mauritz Stiller, her
discoverer, mentor, and lover, who brought her to
Hollywood in 1925—at the invitation of Louis B.
Mayer—where her career took her to a stardom
which has never been equaled, while his own fortunes
collapsed; of her long and not always happy years as
the greatest and most reluctant of movie queens.
Here are Garbo's own memories, as reported by
Gronowicz, of those fabulous years—of the films
(which included Anna Christie, Grand Hotel, Camille, and
Ninotchka), the friends, and the men in her life: John
Gilbert, Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Charles
Boyer, Melvyn Douglas
As well, here are the stories she told him of her
relationships with the men who loved her and played
the largest roles in her emotional life: Stiller himself,
the great conductor Leopold Stokowski, millionaire
George Schlee, diet guru Gayelord Hauser, and her
dear friend, famed photographer Cecil Beaton.
Here, too, we hear about the often rumored fact
that "women pursued [her] more often and more
persistently" than did men, and about her friendships
with women from Marie Dressier to Mercedes de
Acosta (about whom Gronowicz recalls her saying,
"Looking back, I can see that my relationship with her
gave me not only new sexual experience and spiritual
peace for a time, but above all the foundation on which
to base my interpretation of [Queen Christina]"). Vissza