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The greatest revelation ever published about Garbo, our accompanying story sheds new light on this amazing star, both as actress and woman. Top, Greta, with Miss Crews in "Camille." Above and right, studies of Garbo in her most triumphant role.
SHE weighs less than a hundred pounds. She through "Camille" only by sheer force of her domitable will power. She did not know at completion when, if ever, she might be able to make another picture. She is lonely here, but will not go back to Sweden in retirement unless her health compels her to end her career. She is making the fight of her life for the only life she loves. She does not know whether she will win or lose. This is Greta Garbo today. These startlingly intimate truths about Garbo were told me by Laura Hope Crews as we sat in her spacious Colonial house on North Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills. No one could have been better able to tell them than the sunny actress who played the gusty Prudence in "Camille" so gaily as to make that old rip a new joy. For, meeting as strangers, the two became pals. Theirs was not merely a professional relation but a personal companionship so close it brought confidences never before made by the great star whose watchword had been silence. Now that this silence is broken it sets at rest all the vague rumors, false statements and wild canards which have whirled about the screen's most glamorous figure. "Garbo,"' dis (Continued on. page 69)
The Secret
Heart of Garbo
Beyond a doubt the most dramatic, and touching, story ever written about Greta. Revealed by Laura Hope Crews
By Charles Darnton
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