Garbo

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'What she had you couldn't see with the naked eye. It was something in her eyes, something behind them that could reach out, and teil the audience what she was thinking ' - Clarence Brown, her director in seven films.
Behind that most exquisite of feces was always a mystery. In this extraordinary book - withheld until after her death - the real Garbo is revealed for the first time.
Here at last is Antoni Gronowicz's eagerly awaited, controversial and unauthorized memoir of Garbo, written through her eyes and based on their long and intimate friendship.
Nobody else could have described her childhood in such harrowing, candid detail; or written with such passion about Mauritz Stiller, her discoverer, mentor and lover, who brought her to Hollywood in 1925, where her career took her to a stardom that has never been equalled; or detailed her long and chequered years as the greatest and most reluctant of stars.
Here are Garbo's own memories, as reported by Gronowicz, of those... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'What she had you couldn't see with the naked eye. It was something in her eyes, something behind them that could reach out, and teil the audience what she was thinking ' - Clarence Brown, her director in seven films.
Behind that most exquisite of feces was always a mystery. In this extraordinary book - withheld until after her death - the real Garbo is revealed for the first time.
Here at last is Antoni Gronowicz's eagerly awaited, controversial and unauthorized memoir of Garbo, written through her eyes and based on their long and intimate friendship.
Nobody else could have described her childhood in such harrowing, candid detail; or written with such passion about Mauritz Stiller, her discoverer, mentor and lover, who brought her to Hollywood in 1925, where her career took her to a stardom that has never been equalled; or detailed her long and chequered years as the greatest and most reluctant of stars.
Here are Garbo's own memories, as reported by Gronowicz, of those fabulous years - of the films, induding Queen Christina, Grand Hotel and Ninotchka; of friends such as Cecil Beaton and the great conductor Leopold Stokowski, and the lovers: Stiller, John Gilbert, Lew Ayres, George Schlee, Robert Montgomery Here too, Gronowicz relates the often rumoured fect that 'Women pursued [her] more often and more persistently than did men', and that her friendships with women such as Marie Dressler and Mercedes de Acosta gave her a new sexual experience and spiritual peace.
Haunting, compelling, the book takes us with Garbo on her search for personal understanding, as she looks back dispassionately over a life of feme and manipulation. Full of graphic and moving revelations, Garbo provides a remarkable insight into a complex and enigmatic woman. Her voice, so poignandy heard through the records of Gronowicz, tells of the price of self-absorption, egoism and a 'near existential acceptance of pain'. Vissza