The Private Life of Greta Garbo (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Date:
1931
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Leaf #:
00062
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO J>8 less, that Garbo would soon come to her senses. They chuckled to think how they would soon have her knocking at their door. Garbo was persuaded to come to the studio for an interview when she learned she was to talk to a writer whose Swedish husband was to act as interpreter. We met in a bare little office, in the old publicity department of M-G-M. Garbo came in, tall and awkward and self-conscious. She wore a plain little suit, badly in need of pressing. Her eyes were shaded by a green visor drawn down over her forehead. She pulled it off as she entered the door. Her dark brown hair (it had been dyed for the picture, for she is a natural blonde) hung almost to her shoulders. Later this long haircut — which at the time seemed most untidy — was to be known all over the world as the famous Garbo bob. Garbo was a decided contrast to the other well groomed, perfectly poised actresses on the lot. It was her smouldering, heavy-lidded eyes that immediately drew attention. The whites of them were so exceedingly clear and white; the blue