Garbo's Fans

Questionaire 1

NAME:     Nici
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     Austria
DATE:     April 11th 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
I guess it was in 1990, but am not 100% sure, since I was 8 or 9... maybe younger...

Your first Garbo experience?
Camille (USA 1936)


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
The Single Standard (USA 1929)


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Queen Christina (USA 1933)


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
For sure!

Which other classic stars do you like?
Oskar Werner, Romy Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud, MM, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Jack Lemmon, Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren... I guess that are all...

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
Not for screwball comedies...

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Her style influenced a lot...

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
Ask me again when the moment comes close... I really don't know...

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Susan Lenox, Anna Christie and The Kiss, just to answer this question in "movies".
    

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Melvyn Douglas

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
Inspiration


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Ramon Navarro in Mata Hari. I didn't like his part.


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
Too hard to choose, but for the moment I like this one:


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Dorian Gray

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 2

NAME:     John
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     Germany
DATE:     April 11th 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
In 1995, I saw the wonderful Swedish Doku Film Garbo on TV. I was hypnotized.

Your first Garbo experience?
Camille (USA 1936), watching it with my grand-mother, in sommer 1989.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Flesh and the Devil (USA 1926)


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille (USA 1936)


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Sometimes even more than with her “professional” life. Garbo “taught” me to look more  inside myself.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Jean Harlow, Valentino, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
Absolutely! I belive that she had true comedian talent for Pantomimic.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
She was something new when she came out. I belive that even today female actress try to copy her aura.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I think she didn't like questions ;-)

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Her late 1940s image. Very natural and casual. Like she looked on her screen-test 1949. Also, I love her look from  the famous press conference 1938. Classic Garbo.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Melvyn Douglas. He was charming and sympatic.

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
The Divine Woman (because it is lost!) ;-)


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Gavin Gordon in Romance. Sooo boring…

What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?
By Hoyningen-Huene 1952


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Dorian Gray

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 3

NAME:     Bea
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     Germany
DATE:     April 12th 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
On the day i heard  that she died.... something captured me and i was completley in "Garbo Fever".

Your first Garbo experience?
In the mid 1980s i bought the german book The Divine Garbo by F. Sands and S. Broman. I started reading it in late 1989.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Flesh and the Devil (USA 1926)


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille (USA 1936)


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes, because she was so honest and down to earth and always loyal to herself.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Liz Taylor

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
I think she really had much humor. You can see it even in her dramas. Look closey at Romance and Queen Christina.
  

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Her amazing minimalistic acting style is still the biggest inspiration for todays actresses. Garbo always was a leader.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I don't know.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Her natural and more mature style in the screen-test for La Duchess de Langelais.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Robert Taylor. He looked so innocent and beatyful. Robert really was "Armand".

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
The Torrent. There is no reason but its my least favourite film.

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Basil Rathbone in Anna Karenina. I found him so unsympatical.

What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?
The Camille picture in color.


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Empress Elizabeth and The Story of Florence Nightingale

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 4

NAME:     Anklam, Torsten (TJ)
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     Germany
DATE:     April 12th 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
1980. On her 75th Birthday, i saw the last scenes of Queen Christina, i was captured from the first second. Since this day, i never missed when a Garbo  film was on TV.

Your first Garbo experience?
Queen Christina, this made me a "fan".


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Die freudlose Gasse, Woman of Affairs, Flesh and the Devil
    

What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Ninotchka, Camille, Mata Hari
    

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
For me, the privat life of an beloved actress can't be seperated from her professional life. Both sides of her personality are fascinating.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Female: Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe
Male: Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
Without doubt she had very much comedian talent. Sadly, she was mostly cast in dramtic parts.I belive that if she didn't stop filming movies, we would have had the pleasure to see her in more comedy films. She had the talent to turn into a female Charlie Chaplin.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
She affected all actresses who followed. Consciously or unconsciously. Especially those who played the parts in the same genre as Garbo.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
Nothing, i only want to look into her eyes.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Definitly, the Two-Faced Woman style. She never looked more beautyfull.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Robert Taylor

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
None

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Erich von Stroheim

What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Empress Elizabeth and Joan Of Arc and A Womans Face.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 5

NAME:     Ann-Marie, Annie or Garbo20
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     England
DATE:     12th April 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
It was 1999 I think.

Your first Garbo experience?
The Camille scene in the film. Annie, I never forgot her face so when I finally got the internet I brought the film Grand Hotel and a whole bunch of photos and books.
  

What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Flesh and the Devil, I lost my silent film virginity to that film.

What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
This is a hard one but I think Queen Christina but I also love Camille.
  

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes, I love the way she wouldn't always do what people wanted her to.

Which other Classic stars do you like?
In no paticular order Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Alla Nazimova, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich and Hayley Mills

Do you  think that she had comedian talent?
Yes, I loved her in Ninotcka wish she had done more.


Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
For sure, I think Joan Crawford was inspired by GG in her early career.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I proberly couldn't speak LOL

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
Love her profile soooo much


What is your favourite Garbo style?
Love her Kiss look and Flesh and the Devil.
  

What is your favourite Garbo co star?
John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
How could you dislike any of her wonderful work!

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
None

If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
I would like her to have done another comedy part.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 6

NAME:      Ciccione - JC or Jean-Charles
GENDER:      Mâle
COUNTRY:      Belgium
DATE:      13/01 /07

When did you became a Garbo fan?
When I was a teenager (13 or 14)

Your first Garbo Experience?
Queen Christina


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Flesh and the Devil


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille


Are you also fascinated by her real life personnality?
It's the singularity of the person who fascinated me and her honesty, I could quote still much of things...

Which other classic stars do you like?
Louise Brooks, Rita Hayworth, Chaplin, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Ingrid Bergmann, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, K. Hepburn.

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
When one knows her service in Camille, one imagines what it could still have revealed us.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her career)?
All were impressed by Garbo and still to day (all producers dreamed to have Garbo in their films).

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question this be?
A long glance would have been enough for me.

What is your favourite picture?
This Queen Christina Portrait


What is your favourite Garbo style?
Mata Hari - Conquest
  

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Clark Gable

Which Garbo film do you dislike?
The Torrent


Which Garbo co-star do you dislike?
Robert Montgomery

If Garbo would have made a comeback film what role would you have loved her?
Joan of Arc

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 7

NAME:     Martyn Mortimer
GENDER:     Male
DATE:     15/04/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
Just four years ago (2003).

Your first Garbo experience?
Mata Hari.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
The Kiss, it was the first silent movie I've ever seen.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
The Single Standard. Uhm... Queen Christina is also incredibly good.
  

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Of course, it was one of the things that really attracted me to her.

Which other Classic stars do you like?
Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
Well... Ninotchka is a good one, but it's not my favorite.


Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Uhm... probably, but I don't see that very clearly.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I would like to ask her about people like Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton and her lovers.

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?


What is your favourite Garbo style?
Straight long hair (like on my favorite picture).
I also love her with a fringe like on this pic:


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Conrad Nagel


Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
Two-Faced Woman. It's just awuful.


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Ramon Novarro.

If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Dorian Gray!

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 8

NAME:     David G. Lee
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     USA
DATE:     4/17/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
My mother showed a picture of Garbo when I was 12 years old so she told me that Garbo was the most beautiful!

Your first Garbo experience?
I saw Ninotchka first time except she laughed that cheer me up! I loved her face with long eyelashes! Sadly, I never able to hear her deep voice!

What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Flesh and The Devil


What is your favourite Garbo  talkie?
Queen Christina


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
She never gossip or talk about anyone because she was unique! She was the true mysterious so I wish to be like hers!

Which other Classic stars do you like?
Actresses: Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Jean Harlow, Sophia Loren, & Elizabeth Taylor.
Actors: James Dean, Rock Hudson, Gary Cooper.

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
She had a good comedian in her dress advertise from her model job and Ninotchk a was the best and Two-Faced Woman was the other one, too! I wish she would be funny more to make me laugh from depression!
  

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Well, Garbo taught the one young lady in The Painted Veil for private, Garbo warned her to not copy anyone, just be yourself!


If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one?
Just hugging and kissing without asking or talking too much, ha!

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?


What is your favourite Garbo style?


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Robert Taylor had beautiful blue eyes and tall.


Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
Inspiration


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Charles Bickford in Anna Christie


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
La Duchesse de Langeais. Also Dorian Gray, Joan of Arc & George Sand

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 9

NAME:     Fabbiana
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     Brazil
DATE:     04/18/07

When did you became a Garbo fan?
I am an ABBA fan, one day o read in a magazine that the Agnetha was the new Garbo, i wanted to new who's was Garbo, i became fascinated for her, and today i live for collect everything about her, and the most pleasures moments of my life is when i saw one of hers movies

Your first Garbo experience?
When i saw her dancing in Mata Hari, amazing!


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Is so hard to choose only one!!.....but i think my favourite is A Woman of Affairs.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
All! Hahahaha! I think is Mata Hari.


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes! She was the most fantastic person in the world, is so sad that some people don't understand her because they read bad books about her, she was funny, sincere, i just can't put in words all i think about her!!!

Which other classic stars do you like?
Garbo is in the first, second, third...and there goes places in my life!!! But i like Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard, Gloria Swanson....but if i new that some of them told some bad thing about Garbo i just disliked

Do think that she had comedian talent?
She was an actress, she could do everything...i really don't understand why people don't like Two-Faced Woman!!! I think that was a really actress, doing something complete different of her personality! She was the best!

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Yes i think that had a period before Garbo and after Garbo, she change that "all we want is to be like Norma Shearer"

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I would never bother her, she didn't like it, and i would never do something that she could hate.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
At the time of Anna Christie and Mata Hari.
  

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Actors: Charles Boyer, Melvyn Douglas and John Gilbert.
Actress: Joan Crawford and Marie Dressler

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
None, hahaha, but i don't love Romance.


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
I hate Ricardo Cortez (Torrent)


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
This is a hard question, they are so many.....i think Joan Of Arc but i really can't choose it well.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)