I only saw her once. But maybe that's all we are allowed. It was the summer of 1979. I was thirteen and my parents had sent me to Europe for a few weeks. We had gone to Paris and I'd hoped I'd see Dietrich, but instead I found Garbo, standing in the crowd of people looking down at Napoleon's Tomb. For a moment I though, she looks familiar, and when she looked at me I knew. She smiled, index finger to her lips, and disappeared. Thank you for the lovely images.
BEST DIVINA Pictures by artist photographer. ETERNAL BEAUTY NEVER FADES. That's the way She really... IS. Rare document to be treasured. Thanks for showing it!!!
The chemistry between a photographer and his/her model is one of those things no one could ever explain. A hint (just that) could be that Garbo didn't trust many people. She did Beaton, totally. And he genuinely loved her with all his heart and mind. In the right hands their story could make a great film. This documentary is a gem. Wonderful to be able to watch it.
These pictures are new to me. They're naturally wonderful, especially her on the couch or looking out the window. I heard of her in a Madonna song but noticed her first on water colors found in an attic of a restored mansion near my home. Thank you for sharing this video and it's music.
Wonderful montage about the friendship between two sensitive and intelligent human beings. I feel her loneliness and vulnerability but also her strengt to be different in some aspects of her life in these photos. Life in the 1950s was much more conservative. Did she ever find love in her life?
She trusted Cecil Beaton a great deal in allowing him to photograph her. She must have been terribly hurt when she found out he had turned them over to VOGUE magazine for publication. A great friendship was lost in Cecil Beaton not honoring her request for the photographs to remain private.
@@michaelmottlau5941 The actual truths regarding the life of Garbo may truly never be known. Regarding Beaton, I have read where she visited him during his last days at his home as he was quite ill and practically a complete invalid. If this is true (which I would like to believe is true), then she did again visit an old friend for a last goodbye to a dying friend of many years with the full realization she would never see him again.
@@richardmcleod1930 Thank you for your answer, Richard. I watched another RU-vid video yesterday saying that Greta ended their relationship after Cecil released his second book of his diaries notes telling in details about his relationship with her. Especially that she was the love of his life and he wanted to marry her. Greta was a very private person and she trusted Cecil, but after the released the book she never forgave him for his lack of discretion. Some years later he had two strokes and she did visit him a last time as you explained.
Thank you Scott - I'll check out your blog and the photographs , I must look out for the Garbo book as well its not one I've got in my collection. Many thanks - Sue
The clown photos are interesting. Garbo had wanted to play a clown in full makeup. People thought she was nuts. But she wanted to play a clown where everyone thought she was a man, but in reality was a woman. Only later when too much time had passed did some think she had a rather ingenious idea.
What you see is her androginy...but she's utterly feminine...there's no rumor of her to be a man...only in 2019 with that new american obsession of transexuality...
richardm239 No. Garbo was not a man. Her childhood in Sweden, her quick rise to stardom in her early 20's, all of her life being in the public eye, all highly documented and verfiable....where do these stupid notions come from?
Garbo was not a biological man, but she Was the Epitomy of Androgyny! She often referred to herself as a boy, and she had many affairs with women (read "the sewing circle").
