GarboManiac

Well, hello, Riddler (I am supposing that is from the Batman character). That's ok. We all go a little crazy every now and then. For a while there I thought you might be our foe. Didn't trust many people I didn't know.. Welcome aboard, but I guess you don't have much time to BE on board with that schedule! Ha!

Oh, yes! I have been a millionare all my life! It is so wonderful to be independently wealthy! Unfortunately, my wealth consists of a bunch of movie star pictures and a sterling personality! Ha!

Well, TCM cleaned up all the junk on my thread, and I am so thankful. The Riddler comments are still here so I guess they didn't come from you know who! I want to thank him for coming in and trying to help get "the one who must not be named" off my thread, even though it may have incited him all the more. I also want to thank everyone who contacted TCM on my behalf, and fought for the cause! I hope things will stay peaceful now, and again thanks to all of you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! TCM you are on the job! I so appreciate you cleaning up my thread along with the rest of the boards. Keep up the good work! GarboManiac/James

Not even from the Emerald Isle?

The pictures below of Hedy Lamarr are all from the same photo sitting. I really love finding more than one picutre from a sitting. I know that in one sitting they took several photos, sometimes 25 to 50. Then they would let the star go through the pictures to approve the ones they wanted finished and published. These three are gems!

Yes, I see the resemblance, but Constance was never considered a beauty, and I think Kate is lovely. Constance was a GREAT dowager actress. She was renowned for her youthful stage performances, but her performances in films during her later years were fantastic. You should definitely check her out. She was also a dramatic coach; Marilyn Monroe was one of her pupils. (Here she is in Stage Door with Hepburn)

REALLY?! Wow! Paulette and Constance, hmmm? That IS a puzzlement!

You're right! That's SOME babe! I could go for her, big time!

There, ken! I hope you are satisfied! Now, can we PLEASE stay on topic! Ha! ;-)

I have always felt that actors were really just playing themselves in different roles. As much as we would like to think they were acting, they couldn't draw on anything other than life's experiences and how they affected them. Katherine Hepburn said to Anthony Hopkins in Lion in Winter, when he was trying hard to ACT, to just read the lines. What she was trying to say was just be yourself in this character. Clifton Webb was a very caustic fellow on screen. I am sure that he was just that in real life. It doesn't surprise me that he was a bit selfish and opinionated. That personality is one of the reasons I liked him on screen. Marlene Dietrich was a big disappointment to me, also. When I read several bios, I found her to be completely self-absorbed and superficial. But, on screen she was a goddess. I am in complete agreement with the old studio system, which kept damaging information from us about our favorite stars. We just don't need to know most of it. It is for this reason I care so little for the "stars" of today. I know WAY too much about their private thoughts, deeds and inclinations. It is only now that we can find out about how terrible some of our favorites were. And, I think that is ok, because they are dead. But, many times, I wish I didn't know and still had that wonderful admiration I had for them when I first encountered their screen presence.

There is of course much more to the story, but this is pretty much it in a nutshell. Mauritz Stiller, who was not allowed to direct Garbo's first film, was fired off of The Temptress (Garbo's second film). All of the great scenes he had shot were cut and the new director Fred Niblo reshot everything, and let Antonio Moreno grow his moustache back. Stiller had a terrible command of English. When he wanted to say Action, he would say STOP! He forced Moreno to shave off his moustache cause he said it looked stupid. Plus, he was slow and cost the studio money, so Thalberg fired him. It was a terrible blow to Greta. She could hardly manage to go to work. But, the studio had no sympathy. Stiller went to work at Paramount and shot Hotel Imperial with Pola Negri. It was a smash hit. But, his subsequent films were flops, so Paramount fired him. He went back to Sweden and within a year he was dead, a broken man.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Location/3477/index.html http://www.theo-zimmerman.freeserve.co.uk/ohara.htm I think you will like these site, ken!

Dolores, below are three pics I have from a Portraits of Greta Garbo book. She came to Hollywood in 1925, so they are pre-Hollywood. She was born in 1905, so you can figure out her age. I don't think these were used in the recent documentary, but they are early photos. Enjoy!