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Greta Garbo with  Robert Taylor  in   "Camille", 1936

Greta Garbo in Romance (1930) directed by Clarence Brown

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926)

History is repeating itself - movie history anyway. 

Greta Garbo and Lew Ayres in The Kiss (1929)

“I would rather spend an hour with Fleka than a lifetime with any other woman.”

- John Gilbert about Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931

OH Street Style 

Elizabeth Taylor, Venice, Italy (1950)

Katharine Hepburn, New York (1934)

Bette Davis, Hollywood (1939)

Greta Garbo, Capri (1955)

“After dinner she wanted me to take her to the bathroom. I led her upstairs and opened the door for her. Suddenly she calmly laid her hand on my chest and looked at me very earnest and calm. I needed a few confused seconds. Then, also very calmly, I took her hand off my chest and left her alone in my bathroom.The fact that we both stayed so calm made the biggest impression on me. It turned this civilized request into something like a mutual declaration of friendship, love and trust. I must have heard rumors about the unrestricted freedom of her lifestyle. Now I knew that she really was as royal as she looked.” Elisabeth Bergner in her autobiography “Bewundert viel und viel gescholten”. x

Greta Garbo hanging out with Conrad Veidt’s daughter, Kiki, 1929 (Kiki totally did not want to hang out with Greta.)

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs, 1928

Greta Garbo in Gösta Berlings Saga (1924)

“Greta Garbo’s quote to Jerry Zerbe at Valentina’s Russian Easter party was practically stop press. She told him: ‘I don’t dislike people. I love people. And I go to parties all the time!’” – Dorothy Kilgallen, Voice of Broadway, April 21, 1950

Greta Garbo + women

Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

6/13/21

- Goodbye, my beloved.

GRETA GARBO & JOHN BARRYMORE in GRAND HOTEL — 1932, dir. Edmund Goulding

Why should you care for a woman like me? I’m always nervous or sick or sad or too gay. Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) dir. George Cukor

GRETA GARBO & MELVYN DOUGLAS in NINOTCHKA — 1939, dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous. Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932)

Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (1927, dir. Clarence Brown)

“I don’t know how I should have managed if I had not been cast opposite John Gilbert .  .  . Through him I seemed to establish my first real contact with the strange American world. If he had not come into my life at this time, I should probably have come home to Sweden at once, my American career over.”

~Greta Garbo on John Gilbert and her career

A private Garbo – Photos from her personal collection, 1930s.

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Greta Garbo c. 1928

Greta Garbo c. 1928

Some candid footage of Greta Garbo, c. late 1920s.

The chemistry between Gilbert and Garbo…. Perfect.

1926

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Love (1927)