Greta Garbo: -ICON-

(Beautiful casula portrait of GRETA GARBO taken by her friend and world class photographer Cecil Beaton in 1946.)

Garbo called the greatest star of all.Beaton(photographer) wrote on his subject :Perhaps no other person has had such an influance on the appearance of a whole generation..the secret of her appeal seems to lie in an elusive and haunting sensitivity.Garbo has created a style in fashion which is concerned with her individual self. Garbo arrived in Hollywood aged nineteen in the entourage of Mauritz Stilla from Sweden.Signed up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,she went on to star in Queen Christina,Camille and Anna Karenina,dressed by Adrian.Famed as a recluse, she said in 1932,

"I AM AWKWARD,SHY ,AFRAID,NERVOUS AND SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT MY ENGLISH.THAT IS WHY I BUILT A WALL OF REPRESSION ABOUT MY SELF AND LIVED BEHIND IT "

The director George Cukor said that reserved"HER REAL SENSUOUSNESS FROM THE CAMERA"


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