I have not seen many "films" 1 Greta Garbo, so remember, "Anna Christie" ("Garbo talks") of 1935, "Queen Christina of Sweden", in 1933, "Anna Karenina" 1935 and "Ninotchka" ("Garbo laughs") of 1939 - but I've always been attracted by this "fatal, beautiful, exciting and sensual." In his life (1905-1990) interest me relations less secret, unveiled in recent years and never fully established, with Marlene Dietrich and the Cuban Hispanic Mercedes de Acosta, the fact of his final withdrawal of film on plane hit ("I want to leave me alone"). In the early 40s of last century, after having played 27 films, most successful and have become a true idol for viewers around the world, the Swedish actress took the surprising decision to depart from the film and take refuge in privacy. One is reminded of his childhood and youth, the publication in newspapers did not exist sporadically harassed by the paparazzi - of the odd picture of the diva on which was hiding his face behind a big sunglasses, the legend, was buried with them, "wearing a large brimmed hat and shod with low-heeled shoes. Tyler Parker asserts, author, poet and film critic in the book "The films of Greta Garbo", written in 1968, this concealment was not as radical as has been told "He walked daily through the streets of East New York uper, frequented the bookshops and dressed simply "adding " Well preserved for their age to like it nearly sixty years (when writing these lines) has little reason to worry about wrinkles, bags under the eyes and similar ailments and less still desperately trying to hide them with fireworks. I would say to their exits to the street, or in general, outside the home is arranged with care absolutely normal. " Much has been written by Garbo, now not so much because of the time elapsed since his death (1990), but I can only conclude the trial by this author "There are not Greta Garbo or Marlenes Ditrich, no one of height Similarly, as for that matter . " By the way, interestingly, the Academy Awards ever awarded, even with honor to the "Divine", "honor" it shares with another great film makers, Charles Chaplin, who never won an Oscar, though in his case weighed too political and personal reasons that forced him to live outside the United States.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
October 2009
October 2009
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Notes
1 Greta Garbo in 1926 played a silent film, titled in English, "The Torrent", with Ricardo Cortes, based on a novel by Blasco Ibáñez, possibly "Entre Naranjos" Any reader of this blog can tell me where I can get this film ?.
