DePalma
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Hi baby!
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] Grusinskaya says goodbye.
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] "I want to be alone"
"You're going to be very much alone Madame"
DePalma
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]The pride of my collection.
DePalma
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Hello Bargar!
I'm so glad you LOVE H. G. and Garbo!
Thanks
DePalma
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[
] "Who are you?"
"Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you."
"You could love me?"
"I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are."
Here is Garbo in her finest moment on film and you bet your last biscuit that when she's called beautiful he's dead on target. Too much has ben said about "Camille" and "Ninotchka" and *I personally* don't care about either one. In "C" she was too old for the part with those horrible Temple curls and in "N" she was just just not "funny material" the scene at the restaurant where she's laughing is almost embarrassing to watch for Garbo couldn't laugh naturally to save her neck...oh yeah, she was also even older for this one. I understand some of her scenes as Marguerite are simply brilliant, but so are many others throughout her career. MY GARBO is "this Garbo" and the one of "Wild Orchids" "Mata Hari" "Susan Lennox" "As You Desire Me" and "The Painted Veil" These are the films she was so exquisite to look at that is almost unreal and mind boggling that someone could actually be this breathtakingly GORGEOUS!
Garbo is GRAND in Hotel and never you mind that she was too tall and didn't moved or looked like a ballerina, those are details easily forgotten. What counts is that through her craft and complete control of the character she "made" you believe her as Grusinskaya...you simply have no other choice in the matter.
In 1932 Garbo was on top of the world as a screen performer and as an icon of beauty.
She was in fact DIVINE!
I'm on break, came to set up thread. Will continue tonight.
See you guys then!
DePalma
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I know it so well
Thanks
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Who are you?
Are you male or female?
I really don't have a clue as to who you are.
Why are you following me around like a stalker?
Why are you telling me what to do?
TCM strongly advices members to make use of the ignore feature, that is also my advice to you, to put me on ignore forever, if not to mind your own business and move on without contacting me at every turn I make. If you do not like something I post go right ahead and contact TCM and make your complain to them directly not to me. Let them deal with the issue as they see fit. Do not contact me again.
Bye
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[
]When I think of Garbo...and I do so just about everyday (I can't help it, she's everywhere in my home), for some strange reason I always pictured her as she looked in "Mata Hari" or "Grand Hotel" or as I see her displayed on my walls at the height of her extraordinary beauty...however, I never think of her as old or even dead. Of course I know these are facts, but they are not part of my association thought when it relates to her.
Looking at the images below was not easy for me and I have many more I just couldn't scan due to her looking quite old and very unflattering up to the very last photo ever taken. As you can see, one thing remains very much an integrate part of these images, her awareness to the ever present camera and her continuous battle to keep her face and most particularly her mouth covered.
Back in the days of her glorious MGM years, even as a young woman, Garbo was very much aware of her image even though most people would like to think otherwise and she knew what was good for her, what would not work or what she would allow to take place, regardless of whom she was dealing with at any given time of her professional life.
William Daniels was the man who knew her face as good as she did, but not better. He recalled a time when Garbo would not come out of her dressing room to face the cameras and found her terribly distressed studying herself in the magnified mirror. "These lines! These Lines!" Garbo was referring of course to tiny lines starting to form at the edge of her lips. Daniels did her best to calm her down and assured her that the faint little lines hardly presented a problem at this early stage and that he would make sure she was properly handled. The fascinating thing about this incident is that Garbo was at the prime of her beauty.
Whether walking the streets of Sweden, Greece, Paris, Italy or New York...Garbo was able to get by pretty well considering who she was. In part it makes me feel sad to see her being followed and stalked like an animal, specially at the later years and on the other hand I'm up to a point glad to have some of her images after retiring from the screen they are after all part of who she was....I know, in between's don't always come out as you wish them to be but as they really are.
In the last years of her life, Garbo admitted as to have lived a wonderful life and as having no regrets. It makes me feel happy to know this and to think of her as a woman who not only reached great heights in her professional life, but also knew happiness as a human being.
I hope you enjoy your visit.
DePalma
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"I was so alone...and suddenly you where there."