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Greta Garbo, March 26, 1933

Greta Garbo, March  1933

The last professional footage shot of Greta Garbo in test film for a movie entitled The Duchess of Langeais (which was planned as her possible screen comeback, but ultimately shelved when financing fell through), cinematography by James Wong Howe, May 25th, 1949. Garbo was 44 years old at this point and hadn’t made a film since Two-Faced Woman in 1941, but she remained as beautiful as ever. This footage was inexplicably hidden away until after her demise in 1990.

Queen Christina, 1933 dir. Rouben Mamoulian

Greta Garbo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1934

250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order ⇨ Flesh and the Devil (1926) My boy, when the devil cannot reach us through the spirit…he creates a woman beautiful enough to reach us through the flesh.

Silver Screen, June 1931

Greta Garbo & John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil, 1926. Directed by Clarence Brown.

Greta Garbo and Cecilia Parker ‘The Painted Veil’, dir. Richard Boleslawski, 1934. [x]

CAMILLE year 1936 | director George Cukor

Greta Garbo, 1940

Greta Garbo, 1955

I’ll love you all my life. I know that now. All my life. Camille (1936) dir. George Cukor

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1946

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1946

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1946

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1946

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1948

ITS SO CUTE HOW EVERYONE HAS THAT ONE LIL THING THAT THEY CAN JUST TALK ABOUT FOREVER AND NOT GET TIRED ABOUT AND THEY’RE ALL SO DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER LIKE IT COULD BE LANGUAGES OR COWS OR PLANES OR COFFEE AND ITS JUST SO GREAT

As You Desire me (George Fitzmaurice, 1932)

Larry: Let me look at you in civilized surroundings. Karin: Do I survive? Larry: With a margin.

Queen Christina (1933)

Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina (1935)

Greta Garbo, cinematographer William Daniels and director Rouben Mamoulian on the set of Queen Christina creating the unforgettable ending scene.

The last professional footage shot of Greta Garbo in test film for a movie entitled The Duchess of Langeais (which was planned as her possible screen comeback, but ultimately shelved when financing fell through). Cinematography by Garbo’s favorite lensman William Daniels (whose name was spelled incorrectly on the clapboard), May 25th, 1949. Garbo was 44 years old at this point and hadn’t made a film since Two-Faced Woman in 1941, but she remained as beautiful as ever. This footage was inexplicably hidden away until after her demise in 1990.

Queen Christina (1933)

Queen Christina (1933) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

“Garbo is a revolutionary in many ways. She swims against the tide, she is a nonconformist (or rather she does not conform to the ideas others have of her and of what she “should” do). She has always resented the cheap sentiment of most of her roles on the screen, and she dislikes sentimentality in any form; yet she is capable of moaning “Alles ist verwahrlost” at the least provocation. 

Garbo’s physical mystery — and mastery — still apparent today, was not the creation of the wizards of Hollywood. Although they cast her in stereotyped roles, they could not diminish her ability to entrance both men and women. Garbo’s inescapable magnetism could not be defined, but it could be exploited. And whatever private grief it may have cost her when she built her wall around herself and let the world regard her as an enigma if not an outright curiosity, she has never let herself be exploited again.” The Divine Garbo by Frederick Sands & Sven Broman.