Garbo - the history about her name
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Annie)
Garbo and Katharine Hepburn
(Trivia/ Lovers & Friends) Click HERE! (thanks to dreamer)
Nici's Garbo Wallpapers
(Media) Click HERE! (thanks to Nici)
Garbo Interviews - from the Picture Show magazine 1927
(Trivia/ Interviews) Click HERE! (thanks to Annie)
Garbo and her leading men
(Trivia/Garbo's filmpartners) Click HERE! (thanks to Greg)
Garbo and Joan Crawford
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Annie)
Garbo in Berlin
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Patrick)
Cooking and eating à la Garbo
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Danica)
Garbo Video art - by Jean-Charles
(Trivia/ Garbo Art) Click HERE! (thanks to Ciccione)
Garbo a spy in WW II ?
(Trivia) Click HERE! (special thanks to Bea & Kata)
Garbo and Marlene Dietrich
(Trivia/ Garbo's Lovers & Friends) Click HERE! (thanks to Nici)
TJ & J.
August, 5 2007
The return of "Garbo's Last Walk" at Broadway
The poster art
The dark comedy play, starring Kathleen Chalfant as Garbo, was already premiered in March 2007. Now it is back!
Kathleen Chalfant
The play is about Garbo's last days in New York, called "Garbo's Last Walk". It stars Broadway stars Kathleen Chalfant as the 84 year old Garbo, Laila Robins as her screen image, and Taina Elg as Claire, her maid.
Press release
It will open on August 27, Monday, 7 pm, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Broadway at 82nd St. in New York City, there's going to be a one hour abbreviated version of the play read before the public. It's a witty play that captures the real Garbo behind the screen image.
Grand Hotel screening at Orange Coast College, California
On Thursday, August 2, 2007 - 3:00 pm, the Orange Coast College at the Fine Arts Building, Room 119, 2701 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa in Californina, will screen Grand Hotel.
Collecting Greta Garbo is a very wide field. Every serious collector will be aware of one special kind of memorabilia which is really unique: VINTAGE FILMPOSTCARDS.
Among all countries with an evident tradition of printing those cards, it was Germany in particular publishing thousands of postcards dedicated to film actors and actresses, stage artists, directors and all film related subjects.
Garbo's first Ross card
The biggest and most well known company in Germany was ROSS VERLAG. Ross was the best and and most renowned company which was successfully dealing during some decades of the 20th century.
Garbo's colorized Ross cards
We now present to you the really unique Garbo Ross cards collection by our Werner H. (GarboWerner). All together he presents us more than 600 Garbo Ross cards!
Garbo's rare K-cards
Garbo Ross cards items can be offered by official dealers between 3 and 100 Euros.
Welcome to the world of Greta Garbo Ross cards from a German publishing company which has erected a monument to honour a divine goddess of the silver screen.
"The Movie Icon" series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. "Movie Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
This great video is called: Women in film - 80 years of female portraits in cinema.
The morphing montage of female film star portraits from the last 80 years is made by an unknown artist. I will try tro find out more infos.
In order - Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Angie Dickinson, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, Uma Thurman, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow.
Thanks to Vi.
July 14, 2007
Rare Garbo signed photograph on sale!
This rare Garbo signed photograph, inscribed to photographer Ruth Harriet Louise, is going to be to sold at Ebay right now. The price is up to $12,000 - $15,000.
Inscribed in bold black ink on the image, "I am not always yours Greta Garbo – To Louase – isn't right most terrible pose in the world I am mad!" The inscribee, "Louase", is none other than famed MGM photographer Ruth Harriet Louise, who took this photograph.
American fans could join this summer for Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo double features. The New Yorker movie theatre "Symphony Space" will be screening 8 of each diva's best films, giving us an extraordinary opportunity to experience the mystery and attraction of these luminous screen goddesses. the first double -feature was shown on July 8. The Tickets are $7
Scarlet Empress & Queen Christina
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Scarlet Empress
8 pm Garbo in Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina
Showtimes: Jul 7 & 8, 2007, 6 pm
A Foreign Affair & Ninotchka
6 pm Dietrich in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair
8:15 pm Garbo in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka
Showtimes: Jul 14 & 15, 2007, 6 pm
Blonde Venus & Camille
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus
7:45 pm Garbo in George Cukor's Camille
Showtimes: Jul 21 & 22 , 2007, 6 pm
Shanghai Express & Anna Karenina
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express
7:30 pm Garbo in Clarence Brown's Anna Karenina
Showtimes: Jul 28 & 29, 2007, 6 pm
Morocco & A Woman of Affairs
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Morocco
7:45 pm Garbo in Clarence Brown's A Woman of Affairs
Showtimes: Aug 4 & 5 , 2007, 6 pm
Dishonored & Mata Hari
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored
7:45 pm Garbo in George Fitzmaurice's Mata Hari
Showtimes: Aug 11 & 12, 2007, 6 pm
The Blue Angel & Flesh and the Devil
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel
8 pm Garbo in Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil
Showtimes: Aug 18 & 19, 2007, 6 pm
The Devil is a Woman & Conquest
6 pm Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's The Devil is a Woman
7:30 pm Garbo in Clarence Brown's Conquest
Showtimes: Aug 25, Sep 1 & 2, 2007, 6 pm
New film version about Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais
On 13 July, a new movie version about Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais, will be released to European cinemas.
The original French title is Ne touchez pas la and stars Guillaume Depardieu and Jeanne Balibar and was premiered at the Berlinale in February 2007.
La Duchess de Langelais - The Garbo Comeback that never was
The “Duchess” was of course the project which Garbo and producer Walter Wanger tried to turn, 1949, into a cinematographic translation. Wanger wanted to shot the film in Italy and James Mason was signed to play the lover and Garbo made three famous black & white screen-tests for the film.
Sadly, due of many problems, post-phoning's and finally loosing the all important financiers, the film was stopped. Wanger hoped to start a-new but in February 1950, Garbo lost interrest and returned to New York.
Fan Art Movie "Promo" Poster
After the failure of Duchess, Garbo got many new offerings for Comeback Films but the possibility of such a realization was never so close as it was in 1949 with La Duchess de Langelais.
All-round talent Ture Sjolander may will release a unique Garbo Video-File!
In early 1970, Swedish film producer, photographer and writer Ture Sjolander shot many great candids of Garbo. Most of them were published in his 1971 released book “Garbo” by Ture Sjölander & Oscar Hedlund.
Ture and his book
70 Unreleased Candids in colour
Ture said he still has over 70 unreleased colour pics of Garbo. He made those while Garbo was on vacation in Klosters.
He told us: "In 1970 I was doing big artwork on the Space flight program for Swedish Television called 'Space in the Brain', a 30 minutes Space Opera and all the best selling poster from space trips sold worldwide and this Tapestry I got an order of from Zurich in Switzerland. When I was there in that business I made a weekend holiday and went up to Kloster and by a slump find out that this place was Garbos fav. hiding place....."
The rest is history. Many of those photos were published in his 1971 book "Garbo". Only four from seventy unreleased photos were released so far and can be found at his website.
Ture allowed us to use those wonderful big candids for GarboForever and share them with the other Garbo fans. Thanks Ture ;-)
Garbo by Ture
The infamous 3 minute Super8 Film
Ture also told us that he also has this infamous 3 minute Super8 Film, which shows ..... Garbo walking in Klosters ! From all the unreleased or lost Garbo footage, this little film turned into a fan favourite "Must see" and many hoped that Ture will publish the little film one day.
Read more about Garbo's Lost & Unreleased material HERE!
Thanks to Ture
June 24, 2007
Rock Band Plastic Parachute wrote a song about Garbo
The band Plastic Parachute has been likened to the vintage Hollywood stylings of Garbo meshed with the stage antics & unrelenting energy of The Stones.
Plastic Parachute
For the Garbo fans who didn't know, on their 2007 album Swell, which was re-released in February, they have a song called One Greta Garbo Love. You can hear the song at their MySpace website HERE!
The Bands front lady - Deb
Plastic Parachute has shared the stage with such notable acts as Nelly Furtado, Debbie Harry, The Go-Go's, Vaeda, Rick Springfield, many many more. Visit their offical website HERE!
Here are the lyrics to the Garbo song:
Second hand designer shoes
the finest French perfume a working girl can afford to use
A stunning dress under draped white light
High heels in Hollywood, but you're the star
I want tonight
Looking in this big brass mirror
35 millimeter
I want to see you clearer
I'm here to make it clear to you
I wish that you would want me too
Like a silent movie beauty queen
On the big screen
One Greta Garbo love
Vintage Lace & A velvet heart
Bevelled window panes
Silhouettes after dark
a stunning dress, under draped white light
High heels in Hollywood & your
The star I want tonight
Shrouded in mystery
Oh what you do to me
I need to see you
Clearer
I'm here to make it clear to you
I wish that you would want me too
Like I silent movie beauty queen
on the big screen
One Greta Garbo Love
You can get the album "Swell" with the Garbo song at cdbaby.com & at amazon.com
Thanks to Kata & Deb.
June 21, 2007
When Garbo met John F. Kennedy
A new book about JFK's friendship with Kirk LeMoyne (“Lem”) Billings, written by Journalist David Pitts, was released some month ago. “Lem” Billings met Jack when they were teenagers at Choate School for Boys in 1933. The book does also include the funny story when Greta Garbo met John F. Kennedy on Nov. 13, 1963.
The book is called: "Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship." You can get the book HERE!
Book cover
Garbo & JFK
Author Pitts describes how Lem once returned from a visit to Europe, bubbling over with the news that he had become chummy with Garbo. The two had actually toured the Italian Riviera by car together.
Lem's bragging on his friendship with Garbo finally got under Jack's skin, and he decided to get even. He invited both Garbo and Lem to an intimate dinner at the White House with just him and Jackie. But he arranged for the actress to arrive first, so he could enlist her in a little plot he had hatched to take his pal down a peg or two.
So when Lem arrived, feeling rather full of himself, Garbo pretended that she had never met him before. Abashed, Lem spent practically the whole dinner desperately trying to remind the actress of the times the two had spent together, only to have each effort met by a frosty denial from Garbo.
Finally, the three conspirators – Jack, Jackie and Greta – could contain their amusement no longer and burst out laughing. Lem was let in on the joke and, although shaken, he pulled himself together and managed to enjoy the rest of the party.
The date was November 13, 1963. JFK was killed a week later in Dallas. The murder of John F. Kennedy just weeks later, on 22 November, upset Garbo terribly .
On June 6, the Orpheum Theatre at 842 S. Broadway (Downtown L.A.) screened Flesh and the Devil. It was a full success. Read a great review of the evening by columnist Howard Leff - HERE!
Orpheum Theatre
Thanks to Nakis
June 13, 2007
Madonna v/s Greta Garbo
I uploaded a video of Garbo's sexy Mata Hari dance mixed with a cool Madonna song (made by the talented Ellectrika) to get attention that the orginal Uncensored Version of Mata Hari still excist!
Please sign the Petition to get the orginal Versions of Mata Hari & the uncensorered version Two-Faced Woman on DVD! Please sign HERE!
Garbo's Sexy Mata Hari dance mixed with Madonna's Like it or not - Video
The Mata Hari Uncensored on DVD petition!
Many scenes of the uncensorerdMata Hari from 1931, were cut or edited, due of a re-release in 1938 (blame the Breen Office). Please help us sign the Petition. We need more signs! Feltenstein of Warner Home Video is aware of it but still no plans to restore this treasure and put it out on DVD. Please sign HERE!
What has been cut or edited and why?
Various books wrote how the film was a victim of censorship when it was re-released in 1938/1939. Some scenes were cut out to satisfy the Hays Office. In spring 2005 the uncensored version of the film was shown in Brussels/Belgium at the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique. Warner is aware of it and it is now up to them to restore the film and release it on DVD.
The Uncensored Version does contain the following scenes and takes:
The Mata Hari Dance Scene The Mata Hari's dance scene at the beginning is much longer. The original dance scene goes on and on. Most revealing as Garbo continues in a frenetic dance to approach the statue of Shiva. She does is in such a suggestive way, that she seems to imply that she actually makes love with it. In the last shot she takes the top off and we see her from behind - totally nude.
The most revealing Negligee Scene In this version we see the scene where Garbo goes into her bedroom. After closing a satin curtain and then changes into a most revealing negligee. Novarro left behind and hesitate and then we see that wonderful close up of Garbo with the orchids. Than she emerges to initiate a wonderful love scene.
The Madonna Light Scene Another scene included, follows after the scene where Garbo tells Novarro to put off the candle on the Madonna icon and Novarro obeys. After the light goes out, there is a fade out in the cencored version. In this one, there is much more. We see a wonderful close up of Garbo, the two lovers embrace. Novarro micks her up in his arms and carries her to his room.
If you want to see Garbo in her most revealing Negligee, or when she takes her top off and you can see her from behind - totally nude, or if you wanna see what happens between Garbo and Novarro after the lights go out .....please sign.
I finally completed the section i made for Photographer Beauchamp and added the sixth and final colour picture of the famous session he made with Garbo in 1951. Click HERE!
Photographer Beauchamp asked Garbo to do her first photosession in colour. The result were several stunning colour portraits, shot in California 1951. Garbo met Anthony Beauchamp through her friend Harry Crocker and that she met Beauchamp several times before she accepted to be photographed by him in 1951. Garbo agreed to be shot by Beauchamp because he wanted to work in colour and this would have been a new development in her art. Only six negatives were shot. One of these picture appeared on the cover of the famous magazine McCall's, in June 1951.
Thanks to Gianni and Borhes
June 11, 2007
Garbo's Queen Christina Movie Speech on CD?
A speech from a Garbo film is part of the (offical?) CD Silent Movie Stars Speak - The lost recordings. This is a compilation of rare recordings of the actual voices of 21 of the greatest stars of the silent film era.
The tracklising is:
Track 1
2:00
Ramon Novarro
Track 2
0.59
Blanche Sweet
Track 3
6:47
Harold Lloyd
Track 4
5:52
Mary Pickford
Track 5
4:56
Stan Laurel
Track 6
2:55
Jackie Coogan (with his father)
Track 7
5:19
Buster Keaton
Track 8
2:47
Charlie Chaplin
Track 9
0:54
Ethel Barrymore
Track 10
1:36
Lionel Barrymore
Track 11
2:00
John Barrymore
Track 12
3:29
Laurette Taylor
Track 13
0:58
Bronco Billy Anderson
Track 14
4:03
Sarah Bernhardt
Track 15
2:23
D. W. Griffith (with Walter Houston)
Track 16
2:23
Lillian Gish
Track 17
2:08
Douglas Fairbanks
Track 18
3:30
Gloria Swanson
Track 19
4:02
John Gilbert
Track 20
3:59
Greta Garbo
Track 21
7:28
William S. Hart
The compilation was put together by a company called RAVE, and professionally manufactured by a sound studio here Dallas, Texas. A group of men and women who are silent film fans donated their wax cylinders, 78 rpm records, wire recordings, and radio transcriptions in order to make it possible.There is also a Volume 2 in the works that will include the voices of Norma Talmadge, Theda Bara, Francis X. Bushman, Alla Nazimova, and many others.
Thanks to Dave Menefee.
June 9, 2007
About 180 Garbo Lobby Cards added
(Media) Click HERE!
Over 200 Garbo Film Poster added
(Media) Click HERE!
Thanks to Nici
June 4, 2007
News about "Garbo - the Bio-Pic"
Some days ago i posted that Dr. Mia Sperber (a female doctor who wants to swap medicine for Hollywood) wrote the screenplay for a Garbo Bio - Pic and that Uma Thurman had expressed an interest in being cast as Greta Garbo in this (?) film. I wrote Sperber's Agent (Alex Sullivan of The Leo Media Entertainment Group) and he wanted to clarify straight away that the papers made a slight mistake and Dr Sperber is not directly involved in the Garbo project.
On the other hand, he told me, a feature film project is definitely in the works based on Greta Garbo's life, and it is written and to be directed by another client of his, the legendary Buddy Bregman. The Leo Media Entertainment Group is representing the project for him.
Buddy Bregman
Buddy has countless producer and director credits including An Evening With Ethel Merman on BBC, The Danny Thomas Special on CBS, International Cabaret series starring Juliet Prowse, Mel Torm, Shirley Bassey, Diahann Carroll, Nancy Wilson, on the BBC, An Evening With Jule Styne (ITV-London) (Styne was Buddy 's uncle - his mother's brother!) Newport Jazz Festival on NBC-TV, and The American Civil War Film starring Donald Sutherland on BBC-TV, for which Buddy received director of the year and show of the year awards.
Garbo - The Film
Allround talent Buddy Bregman will write, direct and produce the project. It's the behind-the-scenes, personal sexually driven story of this incredible lady as seen through her romances with John Gilbert, Marlene Dietrich (??), Cecil Beaton (homosexual), and a mysterious Latin female screenwriter.
This is going to be a look at one of the world's most emotionally complicated, individualistic and self contained personalities of all time. Her whole life was dedicated to her personal freedom and independence to the confusion of all. She explored her inner world through her unique love life.
More infos coming soon!
June 4, 2007
Greta Garbo's Star on the Walk of Fame in 2007!
To those who are interrested in it:
It is still not known when Garbo got her "star" at the Walk of fame but i found some NEW (Spring 2007) Pictures from her "Star". It still looks like new :-)
A female doctor is swapping medicine for Hollywood after learning that her first screenplay (Love and Virtueis) poised to go into production with an A-list cast. Dr Mia Sperber, the author of seven medical books, said that she had always wanted to write. Love and Virtue is the first of five screenplays by Sperber which are attracting the attention of film industry names.
Sperber said that Uma Thurman had expressed an interest in being cast as Greta Garbo in a film about the reclusive star based on a screenplay written by Sperber. It was rumored that Uma already showed interrest in playing Garbo in the mid 90s. More about Mia Sperber HERE!
We really hope that this will happen ;-)
Thanks to Kata
May 28, 2007
Garbo Personal owned or worn "Garbo's Duesenberg?"
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Kata)
Garbo Press Articles "Young miss article from 2005"
(Media) Click HERE!
Garbo's Gowns " Queen Silvia of Sweden next to Garbo's Queen Christina costume"
(Trivia) Click HERE!
Garbo Musicals and Stage Plays "GARBO...the Musical"
(Trivia) Click HERE! (thanks to Richard D. Kaye)
Garbo in CBS “THIS IS SHOW BUSINESS”–TV?
(Unrealized Projects 1950-1954) Click HERE!
Garbo Audios "The Greta Garbo Centenary 1905-2005"
(Media) Click HERE! (thanks to Ingvar)
Garbo Name inspired and used "Garbo the spy, the pop-singer, the Bar, etc"
(Media) Click HERE!
Garbo's Half-Sister?
(Trivia/Garbo'sFamily) Click HERE! (special thanks to Bea)
For the May Issue of the French ELLE magazine, Mischa Barton (American actress and fashion model) "transformed" herself into Greta for a special photoshoot. Barton was also dressed up as many other classic Hollywood stars like Rita Hayworth, Dietrich, Monroe and Louise Brooks. Click HERE for more.
New Cover and release Date for the ICON Garbo book by Paul Duncan
The publisher changed the cover art for the book and the release date was also changed again (!!!). The book will now come out on September 1 and it will be released in French, German and English language.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. "Movie Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
The book is: “Ich bin nicht gone Hollywood!” Salka Viertel - Ein Leben in Theater und Film.
Cover
It is written by Katharina Prager and was released in March 2007 for a Vienna Publisher. Salka was of course one of Greta's closest friends and she wrote several screenplays for our Divine woman. Salka also starred next to Greta in the German language version of Anna Christie. You can find some interresting Garbo references in the 275 pages book. The publisher claims that the book draws a new picture of Garbo - free of the usual "mystery fake", how Salka called it.
New Date for the Frankfurth screening of Die Freudlose Gasse
I have just been informed that the screening of Die Freudlose Gasse (A joyless Street) at the German Filmmuseum in Frankfurth, has a new date. The film will now be shown on June 6. The film is part of a Asta Nielsen retrospective. The film starts at 20.00 PM ( European time). More Info HERE!
Piano Accompaniment by Eunice Martins
The film will be accompaniment on piano by composer pianist Eunice Martins.
More about Martins HERE!
May 22, 2007
George Cukor talked with Ingrid Bergman about Garbo's Retirement
A New book about Ingrid Bergman, 'Ingrid: A Personal Biography.' includes some Garbo references.
The Grand Surprise: Marlene Dietrich about Garbo's underwear?
A collection of previously unseen journals of Leo Lerman - the late, flamboyant Vanity Fair magazine editor who was a lifelong pal of Dietrich - in his book, from Knopf, Lerman reveals an unappetizing secret about the hygiene of sex icon, Greta Garbo:
"Marlene says Garbo has only two suits of underwear. They are made of men's shirting. She wears one for three days, then washes it, does not iron it. Then she wears the other," Lerman writes.
"Marlene says she doesn't mind the not ironing, but three days! Garbo uses only paper towels in her bathroom, has two pairs of men's trousers, two shirts, and little else in her wardrobe. She is very stingy."
The book
The Book,The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman, was released in late April 2007 and is available at Amazon. There is much more (fictive?) gossip about artists like Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, Yul Brynner, Truman Capote, Onassis , Lillian Gish etc.
Thanks to Kata
May 21, 2007
Garbo Film Screencaps
We added many Screencaps from Garbo Films into the Filmography. More willl follow soon.
Ninotchka screening at the Filmmuseum in Netherlands
Ninotchka will be shown, in a Ernst Lubitch retrospective, at the Filmmuseum in Vondelpark (Netherlands), on May 24. The movie starts at 17:00 PM ( European time).
This is the polnish version of the 1994 released Garbo book, GARBO by Barry Paris. It has finally been released in Poland now. It is published by TWÓJ STYL and translated by Mazan Maciejka.The book was released on April 28, 2007. It has 643 pages and many pictures.
We are currently updating her "GarboForever Gallery". We already uploaded 3000 Garbo pictures. Last week, we had some trouble with the Picture Uploader. So we decided to upload all pictures to a better server. Sorry about that. Hopefully, everything will be under control soon again.
An important sale of film and entertainment memorabilia will be hold at Christie's in New York, Rockefeller Plaza on May 30th 2007. I think you'd like to know that Garbo is among the celebrities included in this wonderful auction.
Garbo's Housecoat from Camille
Among the lots concerning Garbo, we can find a full-lenght housecoat of cream taffeta with Metro Goldwyn Meyer Inc. lebel inside inscribed Garbo 938. It was made for Garbo as Marguerite Gauthier in the 1936 production of Camille . Estimate 700 - 900 U.S. dollars. See more Garbo Gowns HERE!
The housecoat
Garbo's 1942 Passport
Here is another item from the same auction. A typescript receipt for a passport "Received Passport Ua6479 issued by Sweden to Greta Garbo..., signed in pencil Greta Garbo and dated 9/3/1942; Accompaigned by a black and white head and shoulders photograph of Garbo, circa 1942. Estimate 500 - 700 U.S. dollars.
We waited so long ;-) Amazon has finally revealed the Cover art for the book. It was already announced to be realeased in late 2006. The release date had been pushed back a couple of times. Amazon writes that it will be released in December 2007. It will be released in French, German and English. You can get it at Amazon: France, GermanyandEngland.
The Movie Icon series:
People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. "Movie Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
