| Greta Garbo:
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1941 stops the film career of a still young lady surprisingly. Also after a flop of "the woman with the 2 faces" she gets further role supplies from MGM and other studios, to the used attractive conditions. The only real flop in her career was already forgiven by the public . But she rejects each script and withdraws herself from the film business. The career of the Garbo lasted for Hollywood conditions at that time quite a long while: 15 years. Perhaps the public had full-seen at the beautiful mysterious Swede and looked up for a new type of woman. |
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The Garbo in her exil seemed to turn out for interest by end of the forties. History developed self-dynamics: Strange to say: the cinema public required in the fifties for old Garbo films. Again the Filmkurier with photos and contents in brown-coloured black and white was laid out, as if they would show films of the own epoch. For those at that time youngsters a type premiere. Medias tried to look up for her until her death 1990 - almost always without result -. She had become a non-visible phantom / ghost of the city New York, over that legends climbed, which seemed to interest also young humans. Sometimes starting from the sixties one could watch her films on the television. Italian owners of cinemas, for example, protested against the use of films with Greta at 8 p.m. on T.V., because the cinema public remained partially rather at home that Saturday night. | |||
| Greta Garbos interest of play
was not primarily of commercial nature, despite high wages. There is not
one advertisement with her name, no television appearance and no interviews,
apart from a few spontaneous expressions of the 19 year old girl briefly
after her removal from Berlin to California. She appeared often sloppy to
her work, walked into the studio with jogging-clothes. But in the studio
her hair was embelished. Adrians designer clothes were copied by the mode
designers and hairdressers for garboeske customers in America such as Europe.
She cultivated usually a modest life-style and was very economical. By her shy and reserved type she did not have many friends. There is nevertheless a multiplicity of biographs of her, since 1930 until today. The old movie posters decorate restaurants and bars. And - strangely enough - meeting points of homosexual culture of both kinds of sex . She succeeded to achieve a cult status, without assigning ever an public relation agency, she could help a film with moderate script and meager action to success - by her solely presence. |
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Recommend as biographie for example the 700 pages of Barry Paris, he investigated in his subject for many years. The author mentions also many peroid events and describes the star with sympathy, respect and criticism. Or the beautiful book with pictures of Alexander Walker, which is authorized of the MGM. World-wide there are many recommendable photo-books, unfortunately to a large extent no more in the trade. Many university libraries lend still old publications, back into the thirties as emerge year. The scandal chronicles structured on sensation messages (from third hand) looked naturally also for her. There are no official reference points over any relationship of her, maybe with the exception of John Gilbert. Not to recommend at all. See her letters to Mercedes de Acosta in that matter. | |||
| In the twenties and thirties
Greta Garbo could make anything - still so banal - it was spoken and written
about and was en vogue. Many women of her epoch copied her behaviors. Everyday
activities at this time got dignity because of her. Many women gave themselves
in the everyday life mysteriously and obscurely - like her star. She was
one of the few culture-creatives of this century, giving ordinary things
dramaturgy lent without the affect of being ridiculous or trashy.
The phenomenon Greta Garbo with its current medium resonance gives some mysteries up. Perhaps once there will be a come-back of her silent movies in television? Some people would be pleased. |
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| - Thanks for your interest . |
© Zusammenstellung / Collaboration: Thomas Richter - Frankfurt am Main / Germany |
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