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The Divine Garbo: Greta Garbo Biography DVD

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Glenn Close Hosts This Revealing Portrait Of Greta Garbo, One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Female Stars Spanning The Silent And Sound Silver Screen Eras, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Color, 1990, 45 Minutes). #TheDivineGarbo #GlennClose #GretaGarbo #Actresses #FilmStars #MovieStars #LeadingLadies #PopIcons #CulturalIcons #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #Silents #SilentMovies #SilentFilms #SilentEra #ClassicalHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodNarrative #ClassicHollywoodCinema #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #OldHollywood #SilverScreen #DVD

Greta Garbo, Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s, the greatest female film star of the silent era (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden. Greta Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman. From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided industry social functions, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends. She never signed autographs or answered fan mail, and rarely gave interviews. Nor did she ever appear at Oscar ceremonies, even when she was nominated. Her aversion to publicity and the press was undeniably genuine, and exasperating to the studio at first. In an interview in 1928, she explained that her desire for privacy began when she was a child, stating "as early as I can remember, I have wanted to be alone. I detest crowds, don't like many people." Because Garbo was suspicious and mistrustful of the media, and often at odds with MGM executives, she spurned Hollywood's publicity rules. She was routinely referred to by the press as the "Swedish Sphinx." Her reticence and fear of strangers perpetuated the mystery and mystique that she projected both on screen and in real life. MGM eventually capitalized on it, for it bolstered the image of the silent and reclusive woman of mystery.In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth century's most publicized women in the world. She is closely associated with a line from Grand Hotel, one which the American Film Institute in 2005 voted the 30th most memorable movie quote of all time, "I want to be alone; I just want to be alone." The theme was a running gag that began during the period of her silent movies. She retired and became a recluse after making 27 films, spanning the silent era through the beginning of sound movies.

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