DePalma
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Many people don't know she did he last scene with barefeet.
She was small and wore very high heels all he time...she was afraid
of falling while acting out a storm. You can see her feet if you look or them.
Can you see her ready for her closeup, tripping and taking half the people on
the stairs down with her?
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[
] "I can't go on with the scene"
"I'm too happy!"
"Mr. DeMille do you mind if I say a few words?"
"Thank you"
"I just want you all to know that after this shot, we will
continue with the picture and more picture!"
"Is never going to end! I wrote ten extra pages of dialogue
last night and tonight I will write another forty!"
"You see, I waited twenty years for those cameras to roll
and nohing and no one is going to stop them now"
"Max, call security, tell them to lock the gates and give instructions
that if anyone tries to jump over the fence...shoot to kill"
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From the first time I watched this film I fell in love with Swanson's character and walked down many a staircase as if ready for my closeup when no one was watching. Later as a teen I wore sunglasses indoors and at night time, my family and friends thought I was having a drug problem, but I didn't care. I learned that wearing shades gives one the advantage of looking very stylish and glamorous without makeup, also nobody can tell what direction you are looking at and they can't read your eyes. I still wear them all the time particularly in business transactions.
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"Comeback?"
"I hate that word!"
"Is RETURN!"
"Return to the millions of people that haven't
forgiven me for deserting them."
"They'll love it in Pomona!"
"They'll LOVE it everyplace!"
"Sit down. Is there enough light?"
"I got 20/20."
"I "said" SIT DOWN!"
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[
] "Cut away from ME?"
"Well they don't want you in every scene"
"Oh they don't? Then why do "they" write me
letters "everyday" begging for my autograph?
Why? Why? WHY?
"Because THEY want to see me, ME! Norma Desmond!"
"Put it back!"
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Best advice I can give you try finding the earliest films first and work your way to the last one.
I never really got over watching her in Two Faced Woman, I thought it was an absolute disgrace and she should never had been allowed to appear in such garbage. The hideous perm, the tacky amount of costume jewelry, that ghastly swimming scene with the shower cap...an absolute embarrassment. She was stripped off her magic and turned into an American glamour puss, terrible choice.
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I really don't care for Christina. She looked nothing like the Queen, to me she was just Garbo play acting. The dramatic, over glamorized makeup, no real accuracy whatsoever. The passing of Garbo as a man, another ridiculous waste of time. Two scenes in the film that makes it note worthy of this fan. The scene at the inn when Garbo memorizes the room and of course, the final shot. There are so are many other memorable scenes in her films, but after 1934 Garbo's face changed dramatically. It became very hard as if sculpted in stone..almost manly. To me she did something cosmetic that caused this changed, age was not the problem here. Can't put my finger on it, but she was definitely changed. Another thing I found very interesting about her acting was the same Christ-like gesture and pose with her hands...always present.
These are my opinions of course.
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My personal opinion is that Leigh was a finer actress than Garbo.
Garbo was a more unique personality who's beauty and acting techniques
"while in close up" worked miracles and are at times art in motion.
Vivien's work is to me on the other hand more solid and holds to date far better than Garbo's.
In Karenina, Vivien is more convincing as a doomed woman and her costumes are absolutely gorgeous. Again, I always have a hard time watching Garbo with all sorts of curls and lacy frills.
Give me Greta up to The Painted Veil with parted on the side, long bobbed hair and I'm fine. Only reason I dislike "As You Desire Me" so much is that hideous blonde wig and then the shorter curly one...in between when she's wearing her hair as "I" like her she was stunningly gorgeous. I know some people don't like to hear so much about how beautiful Greta was, but this is one of the main reasons she's so beloved. I don't think that without her amazing beauty Garbo would have gotten too far in her career as a movie star. At 36 she was through and not just because a bad film either, she left the screen because she knew her better days where behind her and her image was more important to her than anything else.
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You don't have to "read" my posts you know?
There's the advantage you see my name before you click, why don't you move on instead?
I personally don't write them with you in mind.
In all honesthy, if you don't like peas, why do you "eat" them!
You know don't have to "eat" them of course, but to "eat"
them out of your own free will and them rant about how much you hate them.
Well, that seems a bit "fruity" or "nutty" mind you I don't mean "crazy".
Not at all.
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Vivien Leigh's acting in Karenina is in my opinion far better than Garbo's, she looks fabulous and her death scene if also more effective.
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So interesting how some people find Joan "sick" and an "awful person". I think she was far better than most of the other stars who's children wrote books about. Want to hear sick and awful?
How about Lana Turner? As far as I remember, none of the girls at Joan's was raped for years and nobody was killed there either.
Nope, there's no more blind a person than the one who refuses to see.
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As far as Rhoda being made to sit in the foyer, etc...I was not there and dearest June always seemed to me a bit unstable in her behavior to give her much thought. Regarding children's taking part when adults come to visit? They have no business whatever being there acting out and trying to get all the attention. June came to see Joan, not her competition. Joan was a bigger star, was her house, she obviously felt that talking about her was more interesting than hearing about mousy June.
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still can't see them!
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http://my.opera.com/GarboTour/albums/show.dml?id=498845
This is a collection of images of Garbo's family home in Sweden and her apartment in New York where she moved in 1953 and lived until her passing in 1990.
I hope you enjoy these rare photos.
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Interesting line: "I always said I would "leave" when the time came"
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Just come on up!
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[
] A gorgeous shot by Bull in costume for "Hotel"
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Rafaela Ottiano also played Garbo's maid in "Desire Me"
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This ONE is the rest are X.
If you make it to Florida you can stay wih me and spend a weekend watching films.
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I can't see your pictures they are X all X's!!!!!!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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[
] How marvelous Garbo's expression from total bliss to disgust at his confesion of taken her pearls.
You may keep the pearls, I don't want them"
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What's wrong with your pictures "dearest" are we supose to imagine them?
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[
] This is Garbo's greatest moment on screen.
NOTHING she will ever do again can compare or
come close to her beauty and the magic of this scene.
DePalma
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 ? April 4, 1983) !!!!
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I think Monty would have done a good job being so cute and hairy chested too, but no, nobody can be Joe except Holden. There was a nasty, bitter bitchiness about him, kinda makes you feel like going up to him and smacking him around before the love making scenes.