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Introduction
For the people in the 1920s,1930s and 1940s, the “Garbo mystique” was only known in moody contrasts of black, white & gray. It was a long and very expensive process to do a color picture back in the 1930s and 1940s. Many don't know that some Garbo color pics exist, here is a list of the photos she officially made in color.
1. Candid shots made by Paparazzi's (shot from the late 1960s to 1980s)
2. Private Garbo pictures in color (shot from the late 1960s to 1980s)
Those pics are made by friends and Greta knew that she was photographed.
3. Two professional and official color pictures were taken in 1936 (Camille)
& 1941 (Two-Faced Woman).
4. A whole colour photo session was done in 1952 by p hotographer A. Beauchamp.
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Camille 1936
This is the first picture that showed Garbo in colour. It wasn't planned at all. During a photo session for Camille in 1936, photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull suggested a colour photo shot to Garbo. Making such a photo was hard work and Greta had to sit still for a couple of minutes but the result was a sensation. The world could finally see Garbo's pale blue eyes.
The photo was reproduced in the book Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal and published in 1981. It is an autentic color photograph taken on the set by photographer Frank Grimes. The other pictures from Camille may have been taken by Clarence Sinclair Bull as stated in the description in the book: "One of only four color stills cameras in Hollywood belonged to MGM, where Clarence Sinclair Bull took the first color portraits of Greta Garbo in costume for her role as Marguerite Gautier in 'Camille'."
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Garbo and Taylor in Camille
The photo was reproduced in the book Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal and published in 1981. Photographer Ted Allan took color studies of Elizabeth Allen and Robert Taylor for Camille, and stills man Frank Grimes (who alternated with Milton Brown in taking the stills on nearly all Garbo's films) took a number of production and scene stills of Camille with the color camera.
The photo of Garbo with Robert Taylor was taken during a rehearsal for one of the films love scenes. It is the one reproduced in the book along with the shot from Conquest.
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Two-Faced Woman 1941
The second time Garbo was shot in colour was for the Two-Faced Woman photo session on October 3, 1941. This session was Greta's last photo session for MGM. Photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull asked Garbo to do another photo in colour
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Anthony Beauchamp 1951
  
Photographer Beauchamp asked Garbo to do her first photo session in colour.
The result were several stunning colour portraits, shot in California 1951.
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Garbo Private in Color - Paris, July 1958
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Garbo Private in Color - Europe 1966
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Garbo Privat in color - Sweden 1972
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Garbo Candid in color - USA late 1970s
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Garbo Candid's in color - France 1981/82
 
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Garbo Candid's in color - New York, early 1980s.
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Real color or not?
Conquest
Some say this picture from the film is in real color and some say it is colorized.
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The photo is rumoured to be shoot during the big polka rehearsal of the film. The photo was reproduced in the book Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal and published in 1981.
Special thanks to Greg and Leo.
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Real color or not?
Camille
Some say this picture from the film is in real color and some say it is colorized.
If you have any infos about the history of this photography, please mail us
GarboForever@web.de!
 
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