The Great GarboThis candid and perceptive biography of the quintessential film star, Greta Garbo, evokes the real actress with scholarship and grace. |
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... told her she was altogether too young to be considered as a screen actress . ' Come back to me when you have had more experience , ' he said gently , and then waved her away . He did not forget her . There were to be two more meetings ...
... told her she was altogether too young to be considered as a screen actress . ' Come back to me when you have had more experience , ' he said gently , and then waved her away . He did not forget her . There were to be two more meetings ...
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... told her . He dominated her completely . On the set he spoke to her rarely , communicating by gesture . He was like a magician , conjuring out of her tall , graceful , athletic body and sensitive face a refinement that had never existed ...
... told her . He dominated her completely . On the set he spoke to her rarely , communicating by gesture . He was like a magician , conjuring out of her tall , graceful , athletic body and sensitive face a refinement that had never existed ...
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... told that they were not American enough , which was true , or incompetently written , which was untrue . One of these scripts , based on the play Hotel Stadt Lemberg by the Hungarian dramatist Lajos Biro , concerned a run - down hotel ...
... told that they were not American enough , which was true , or incompetently written , which was untrue . One of these scripts , based on the play Hotel Stadt Lemberg by the Hungarian dramatist Lajos Biro , concerned a run - down hotel ...
Contents
THE LEGEND | 3 |
THE COMING OF GARBO | 26 |
THE YOUNG COUNTESS | 43 |
Copyright | |
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