[gilbertroland]

" When I was doing Anna Christie on Broadway I saw Garbo in the street and ran after her. I thought: “She has to know I’m doing Anna Christie!” As if that was of interest to her! She saw this woman coming running and she started to run. I ran after her and in the end she disappeared into Central Park. Yes, she outpaced me. But when she turned and looked so frightened I gave up and didn’t follow her. I was younger; I could have made it, but I didn’t." Liv Ullmann for The Guardian, 2022

[gilbertroland]

#30

[romans-art]

Greta Garbo from Queen Christina (1933) if you read this im free on Thursday night and would like to hang out. Please respond to this and then hang out with me on Thursday night when I'm free -

[gilbertroland]

happy international women's day 🫀

[gilbertroland]

No.

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[gilbertroland]

Garbo played a variety of characters — vamps, spies, and she could even be funny as seen in Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939) — but it was her role as the Swedish Queen Christina in Rouben Mamoulian’s 1933 eponymous film that seem to have been dearest to her heart. A telling anecdote emerges out of the filming, one that captures the metaphysical complexity of Greta Garbo. When she asked Mamoulian what kind of facial expression she should have in the final shot, he said, “Nothing, absolutely nothing. You must make your mind and heart a complete blank. Make your face into a mask; do not even blink your eyes while the camera is on you […] This was one of those marvelous spots where a film could turn every spectator into a creator.”

[gilbertroland]

[rachelmygod]

As You Desire me (George Fitzmaurice, 1932)

[automaticdreamlandkid]

Athos - The Musketeers

[margotfonteyns]

Vera Zorina in Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

[gilbertroland]

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[aquamon]

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[gilbertroland]

[gatabella]

"For the first decade of our friendship, she came to dinner often. Garbo was famous for canceling at the last minute, although she never did it to me. I sometimes cautioned guests to stay cool in her presence, but I forgot to warn actor Vincent Price. When he spotted her, he blurted out, “It’s Garbo!” Once he was himself again, they got along quite well."

-William Frye, Vanity Fair, April 2010