Divine Garbo

Greta Garbo: the mysterious lady, Hollywood Goddess, one, unique and only. "Garbo offered to one’s gaze a sort of platonic idea of the human creature, which explains why her face is almost sexually undefined, without however leaving one in doubt … the name given to her, the divine, probably aimed to convey less a superlative state of beauty than the essence of her corporeal person, descended from heaven where all things are formed and perfected in the clearest light." - Roland Barthes

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Greta Garbo, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, 1931

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Greta Garbo, The Kiss, 1929

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Happy birthday, Greta Garbo! ♡ 18th September 1905 - 15th April 1990

‘To know Greta - one must know the North. She may live the rest of her life in a Southern climate, but she will always be Nordic with all its sober and introvert characteristics. To know her one must know - really know - wind, rain, and dark brooding skies. She is of the elements - actually and symbolically. Forever, in this present incarnation, she will be a Viking’s child - troubled by a dream of snow.’ - Mercedes de Acosta

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“It was because of Garbo that I left MGM. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, ‘When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.’ When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I.” –Gilbert Adrian

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Greta Garbo, Two-Faced Woman, 1941

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Greta Garbo had something that nobody ever had on the screen. Nobody. I don’t know whether she even knew she had it, but she did. … Garbo had something behind the eyes that you couldn’t see until you photographed it in close-up. You could see thought. If she had to look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn’t have to change her expression. You could see it in her eyes as she looked from one to the other. And nobody else has been able to do that on the screen. Garbo did it without the command of the English language.

Clarence Brown 

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Greta Garbo, As You Desire Me, 1932

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Greta Garbo

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Robert Taylor and Greta Garbo in Camille, 1936

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Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel, 1932

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Last professional footage of Garbo in 1949 (screen test for a film that was never made) Still very beautiful at the age of 44.

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Greta Garbo …

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Greta Garbo, Camille, 1937

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Greta Garbo passport -photo…

Purpose of journey..PLEASURE….