Garbo's Fans

Questionaire 10

NAME:     Audrey Kerry
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     USA
DATE:     4/20/07

When did you became a Garbo fan?
When I was a young teenager. She was still alive in the late 70s and I used to write to her.

Your first Garbo experience?
Well, if you can count seeing her photos in nostalgia magazines, that was my introduction to the divine vortex! I read one article and was smitten instantly! It was her photos and the mystery of her persona. She affected me like no other legend had done. She stood alone and above them all.

What is your favourite Garbo silent?
That's a tough one. I guess I'd say The Single Standard. She and Nils were so hot! omg!


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Another toughie, ha. I think her BEST is Camille but I love to watch Inspiration a lot for so many reasons. I suppose making fun of Robert Montgomery is one of them. ha.
  

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Oh YAIS!

Which other Classic stars do you like?
All of them. I have so many I adore. Joan Tone, Bette Davis, Kate Hepburn, Susan Hayward, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracey, Bogey, Deborah Kerr (of course she married Peter Viertel), Edward G. Robinson, Lon Chaney, Sr., The Marx Bros....like I said, all of them. Oh, ROZ RUSSELL, what a doll! I know I've only mentioned a few. Don't EVEN ask me about the newer (stars)...I know nothing of them.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
DUH! Yais!!!

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
DEFINITELY! They all said so too. Garbo was Kate Hepburn's favourite and she was also Bette Davis' favourite.!! They all adored her and learned from her; but somehow couldn't describe her magic. Even Norma Shearer called her 'divine.'

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
That's between me and Greta :-)

What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?
Impossible to choose. It changes. For a long time it was this one  from Inspiration.


What is your favourite Garbo style?
I love it when she is playful. If you mean clothing, I'd say contemporary as in The Single Standard.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Nils Asther (silents); Melvyn Douglas (talkies)

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
The Saga of Gosta Berling (she'd kill me for that) ha.


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
ROBERT (monkeyboy) MONTGOMERY in Inspiration! WORSE ACTOR EVER!!!!


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

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 11

NAME:     D.K. (Spartacus)
GENDER:     Female
COUNTRY:     Canada
DATE:     April 20, 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
2004 to 2006.

Your first Garbo experience?
Being very "into" classic cinema at the time, I of course stumbled across Grand Hotel and was instantaneously captivated by Garbo.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
I never saw all her silents but probably A Woman of Affairs.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Again, didn't see all of them but I would say Camille.


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes, I was. Also perplexed.

Which other Classic stars do you like?
At the time: Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara, Jimmy Dean, James Stewart, Greer Garson, to name a few.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
Yes--largely untapped. Quel loss.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Garbo the actress, yes; Garbo the person less so.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
(no answer)

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
By Beaton, 1948


What is your favourite Garbo style?
Of her onscreen styles I'd say Conquest.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
meh, didn't really care for any of them overmuch.

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
most disliked? Two-Faced Women. “Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder" was such an apt review.


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
pretty much all of them! She was never equalled onscreen by any co-star in my opinion.

If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Ibsen's A Doll's House and Chopin's The Awakening

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 12

NAME:     Néstor Gregorio (Greg) Acevedo
GENDER:     male
COUNTRY:     Puerto Rico
DATE:     june 17 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
In 1982 watching her movies on T.V and in my acting classes.

Your first Garbo experience?
Ohhh! when i saw her in N.Y 1981 and i didn't know who really she was, the story is already posted on the board.

What is your favourite Garbo silent?
The Kiss & Mysterious Lady
  

What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Ninotchka & Camille.
  

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
well I keep that opinion for me, she was a natural human being her personality was very Swedish, maybe we didn't understood her at all, maybe she didn't knew how to deal with it, but that's was her choice, but in her movie career was simply the best of them all no one got the magic of Garbo. No one, there won't be another Garbo.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Crawford, V.Leigh and mmm well! Come on and see me sometime, hell of a funny lady she doest have the beauty but saved Paramount Pictures Miss West: “Mmm cowboy how tall are you without your horse?  "Six foots seven inches!” “Hmm well, never mind about your six feets lets talk about your seven inches!” sexy, funny, vulgar, grouse, who cares! She was Mae, in Myra Breckendbridge she stole the movie to Raquel Welch, and she was 77 years old, thats the magic of the great actresses from the silver screen era, the glamour, and the magic, that disappear in the 50s. so don't put the blame on me, that's my opinion, that's all, sorry my friends I am so direct.

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
light  comedy of course.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
I think she was unique, there's maybe an influence in others but there, s just one in a century. I think Marlene Dietrich imitated her in voice, the move of her eyes, manners, see her in the color flop Garden of Allah.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
To Garbo?  Nothing, to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, or Miss Brown, maybe.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
free natural


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Melvyn Douglas and John Gilbert
  

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
Romance


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Ramon Navarro, he was so feminine he kills Mata Hari Magic that picture could be better with Gable or another more masculine co-star, he was more fem than Garbo. i remember the clip when he comes with a bunch of flowers... Mata, Mata.... come on, what woman would stand that feminine clown. and I'm not homophobic but come on, two woman's in the same picture competing each other? maybe he would be a better Mata Hari, YOU SOUND SO TRAGIC!!!!


What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?

This Ninotchka poster.

If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
A remake of Mata Hari, with a masculine co-star. Or another light comedy not Two Faced Woman, maybe with another director could be better, (Two Faced Woman) I think in some clips is so awful and ridiculous like the one she was going up the stairs the way she did, and some angles of her face were not good at all, who was the camera man? He was mad at her? When she was in the sofa with Douglas, "not yet not yet!"  that's my opinion, maybe for some other people is good I respect that ,but in my opinion she was miscast, an awful movie, they kill the magic of Garbo, a big mistake.
  

Your Garbo story:
Everybody tells me that it was a great experience, of course i was young, some kind of naive in the Big City, at that time i didn't get that excited if were today, the story will be another, i used to have a few friends in N.Y and they always tells me, We've been living here for years and you came for the first time and saw what everyone here always want to see and never happens!

Well i was in 51 or 53 East River with my aunt who used to live at Chelsea, well, she was visiting a friend who used to live at near by East so i got bored of their conversation and walk a little over 52 or near, it was my first time in the Big City and i just want to see everything.

Well i saw this tall old lady with a younger man, maybe in his 30s, maybe a few years more than me, i was in my late 20s,w aiting for the light to change, i was at their side they both notice me and smile (very shy smile,) maybe because we were the only people waiting for the light to change, i don't really remember the words he said but something like "how long we are going to wait here" or so, it was a very cold day.

W well i heard when she says to him in a very quiet voice something about me, i don't really recall the exact words, well we cross the street and i said have a nice day and he smile, she didn't, she didn't even look at me again, today i realize that maybe she got afraid?

Well i didn't know who they were until i saw a picture in a newspaper magazine on Sunday i remember it was Friday the day it happens, when i saw 3 colour pictures i recognized the guy walking with the lady and when i read Garbo!

God!, is incredible but i think those picture belongs to the same day, because i recognized them immediately, i ran to my aunt and told her the story, i didn't even know was Garbo, today in my mind is hard to believe, but it happened, by the years i realized that maybe the man was a walking companion i saw in last 2005 special at TCM, my God i think he was the man!

I'm not quite sure but i think it was him my God!, TCM and Robert Osborne don't know but i really got a great story to tell, today as the years passed i realize i got a great day and i didn't know, by that time, i knew there were a Garbo but i was not so aware like today, maybe that's why i didn't realize it that day, my aunt that pass away a few years ago, told the story to everyone she knew, every time she told the story very excited, more than me.

I wander what would happened if i knew by that time that the lady at my side was the great Garbo. i know is hard to believe even for me but it really happens, im so proud of it, in 1992 in a visit to to New York i get to 52nd 450 were she uses to live, and all the memories of that day came back to my mind till a guy that was getting out of the building, when i ask him here is were Garbo uses to live? and he very ironic answer me, yes and also Peter Pan ..........well ... at least i have something just for me, i spent a few minutes of my life near Garbo.

Questionaire 13

NAME:     Raelynn Firmin
GENDER:    Female
COUNTRY:     United States
DATE:     06/17/07

When did you became a Garbo fan?
I became a Garbo fan just recently and now she is my idol.

Your first Garbo experience?
My first Garbo experience was actually a few days ago. By chance, I picked up Camille at the library and watched it and just completely fell in love.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
I actually haven't seen any of her silent films yet, but I just bought the Greta Garbo Collection so we'll see when I get it.

What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
So far out of all the ones I have seen Camille is my favorite. I could watch that movie over and over again and never get tired of it.


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes, very much. I am a lot like Greta Garbo in MANY ways.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Maureen O'Hara, Alexis Smith, Greer Garson, Paul Newman, Tippi Hedren, Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau, Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, and probably many more that I just can't think about right now.

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
DEFINITELY! I think besides Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, she was one of the greatest comedians, but we just weren't blessed to get to see much of it.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Most definitely. She definitely has on mine personally.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I probably wouldn't even be able to make out a question to ask her.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
If you mean clothes, I love how she looked in Two-Faced Woman. To me, she was most beautiful in that.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
I loved her with Robert Taylor, John Barrymore, and Ramon Novarro.
    

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
NONE! I love them all.

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
I liked all her co-stars.

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Any role. I just wish we could have seen more of her. It's very sad that she never returned to films.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 14

NAME:     Ricardo Aurélio de Carvalho
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     Brazil
DATE:     05/ 06/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
Since 2004.

Your first Garbo experience?
Camille


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
The Kiss


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes!

Which other classic stars do you like?
Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Deanna  Durbin, Mae West, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Tyrone Power, Claude Rains, Charles Laughton and Clark Gable

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
Certainly yes!

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Yes!

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
Nothing !

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Romance, Anna Christie, Susan Lennox, Camille and Conquest
      

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Robert Taylor

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
Grand Hotel


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Ramon Novarro


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
Camille


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Joan of Arc or any film noir.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 15

NAME:     Alexander
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     Russia
DATE:     03.06.2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
I do not remember accurately when, but  entire life, how many I remember myself, I searched for the perfect model of beauty, and long before as I looked the first films with Garbo, I saw her photo in the books, and since then I did not see face of the of more excellent than of Garbo.

Your first Garbo experience?
Camille


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Die freudlose Gasse but i don't saw all her silent films.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille, Queen Christina, Two-Faced Woman
    

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
Yes ! Which other classic stars do you like? Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Zarah Leander, Arletty, Michèle Morgan.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
Yes of course.

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Garbo is a myth. Her influence as influence of a myth.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
Nothing.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
I love all of her styles.

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Melvyn Douglas


Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
I love all of her films.

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
I never think of it.

What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
I would like, that  Hitchcock or Antonioni have Garbo in their films.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 16

NAME:      Isaura
GENDER:     female
COUNTRY:     Belgium
DATE:     29 may 2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
Late april 2007.

Your first Garbo experience?
I saw pictures of her on the net, but the first clip I saw was a clip of Camille that totally fascinated me.The scene after she leaves her party, where she is in her room and Armand comes in.Then I immediately ordered the signature collection.


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
The Temptress


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille and Queen Christina. I can't decide.
  

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
totally.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Gloria Swanson, Merle Oberon, Ava Gardner, Joan Crawford

Do think that she had comedian talent?
I think so. She can make such funny faces. I think she makes many funny faces in Queen Cristina.


Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
I think so. Sometimes I come across pictures of other classic actresses that are very Garbo posed.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
Can I kiss your hand?

What is your favourite Garbo style?
I love Susan Lennox, although I haven't seen that movie and The Painted Veil.
  
 
Wow...and her James Wong Howe 1949 screentest.


What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
I like Robert Taylor

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
The Mysterious Lady


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
A. Moreno in The Temptress.


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
  

If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Cinderella and Snow White

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 17

NAME:     Nakis
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     France
DATE:     28/05/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
At the time of her death in 1990. I was in the US at the time as a student and they showed many of her films on Turner Classic Movies. It was a most extraordinary experience. I did not know that such beauty, such a genius of an actress and personality could exist. This enabled me to discover in total wonder some «unknown» Garbo films like As you desire me, or Inspiration. It was the revelation of true beauty!


Your first Garbo experience?
A series of documentaries on silent cinema back at the beginning of the 1980s produced by Kevin Brownlow and those images of Garbo gracefully dancing with John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil. Even then I felt that this was a totally different kind of actress than the other silent performers of that period like Pickford, or Gish or Clara Bow. Something which cannot be defined. Divine!


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
Woman of Affairs. She plays a character which is close to my heart, a modern, strong and yet vulnerable and utterly romantic character, doomed from the start and yet meeting her death with the utmost grace and dignity. Her acting in this film is miraculous and she is breathtakingly beautiful. With the slightest expression of her eyes she speaks volumes. She imposes on this film the type of a gentle, generous and tolerant goddess who has descended to earth for a short period of time. Her passing among us mortals is a blessing and >I treasure every single moment we see on the screen this extraordinary woman, since we know that «she is not from this earth». She is like a dream, a soul wondering around the earth, a vision of utter beauty and generosity. Her Diana is like her Marguerite in Camille one of those heroines who always accompany my dreams and most private moments.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Camille. This is the film where she delivers her most complex and rich performance. Full of lightness and humor in the opening scenes at the theatre, touchingly hypocritical and yet full of honesty in her early scenes with Baron de Varville. And then at the scene at the auction when she meets with Armand Duval, she lights up the screen (even if we have seen the film a hundred times) when she sees him and greets him with that divinefully charming «Armand Duval. Where are my marron glacés». She seems to embody the whole concept of the 19th century in her acting, that era of romanticism embodies by such geniouses like Chopin or Georges Sand.  She displays wisdom, romanticism, cynicism, generosity and humanity in her acting and creates the most memorable Lady of the Camelias we will ever see. Magical when she visits Armand at his apartment and evoques that «once I had a little dog », delicately calculating in the subsequent scene when she asks the Baron for money in order to pays her debts and leave to the country with Armand, filled with peace and simplicity in the idyllic scenes in the country, utterly moving with dignity in her confrontation with Armand's father, a wounded animal crying its desperation when she tells Nanine to carry the message to de Varville (having accepted her fate that she must give up Armand), divinely cynical in bher separation scene with Armand, the incarnation of the tragic muse as she gracefully bends down to pick up the fan she has dropped at the gambling scene and of course above all heartbreaking in her death scene where we see her powerful soul and immortal love for Armand constantly struggling against her ailing body.


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
I am fascinated by the dignity with which she always lived her private life, nothing cheap or vulgar. She always as she said wanted to live two life's one for herself and one for the movies and she remained true to her principles. She also taught us not to compromise and always remained to the top.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Ramon Novarro, John Gilbert.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
There is no doubt about that. Look at the scenes when she meets Gilbert in Queen Christina and the subsequent scenes at the inn. She plays them divinely as if she were portraying one of the great Shakespearean comedies like As you like it or The Twelfth night. There is so much delicacy in her acting and she also adds with genius the exploration of the boundaries between male and female that divine touch of androgyny. There was no doubt before Ninotchka that she could be a master in comedy as well since she has the essential gifts for that. Perfect timing and rhythm in her delivery and movement. She also has lightness and can be grave at the same time. This is true in Camille especially in her scenes at the theatre where behind that funny and light touch we can sense something ominous. But also in her true comedies, she is not afraid to play a funny scene and then when her part requires it she can become dramatic and moving, sometimes we see this at the same time. It is not caricature like other comedians but true art and life.
  

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Of course. One has to look at the style and evolution of style of other great actresses and personalities like Katherine Hepburn, Davis, Crawford, Lombard, Bergman and also the great actresses and stars in Europe like Arletty, Michèle Morgan, Signoret or Romy Schneider. Her influence was always present, but no one can touch the original.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I don't think I could dare ask her a question. I would just look at her and hope that she would speak first.

What is your favourite Garbo style?
The trench coat and slouch hat style in Woman of Affairs. Also the wonderful period costumes in Camille and the divine white dress and turban in The Painted Veil.
    

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
This is hard. John Gilbert since they made a magnificent romantic couple. I also like her with Taylor in Camille, Boyer in Conquest and I think that two of her most extraordinary partners were supporting actors. Henry Daniel who plays the Baron de Varville in Camille and the wonderful Philippe de Lacy who plays her son in the silent Love.
      

Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
I love all of her films, there is no way I can dislike a Garbo film.

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
I am not very keen on Robert Montgomery and not crazy on Nils Asther whom I find a rather bad actor.


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
The famous one from Mata Hari with her hand up her front, her hair magnificently pulled back and her eyes looking down. She is in her own world here, distant, dignified, a true goddess alone in her solitude.


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Hamlet, I think she would triumph in the part of the gloomy Scandinavian and what great meanings she would give to the famous line  To be or not to be. Also Shakespeare's Cleopatra, I think she was the only actress who could truly play this part which requires both a great tragic actress as well as a majestic and most complex personality.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 18

NAME:     AN PHAM
GENDER:     FEMALE
COUNTRY:     VIETNAM
DATE:     02/24/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
When I was 12 I bought her movie Camille at a DVD store.


Your first Garbo experience?
Camille


What is your favourite Garbo silent?
I just have watched 3 of her silents so far. Among them I like Flesh and the Devil best I believe.


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, Camille
    

Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
I am. I love how she shuns publicity.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis and Audrey Hepburn.

Do think that she had comedian talent?
Yes I think she is a great comedian

Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Of course yes, but no one can become like her.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
No I think I would wait for her asking me first

What is your favourite Garbo style?
Every movie that she wears pants.

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Freddie Bartholomew


Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
I just have watched 10 movies of her and I think I like all

Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
I don't dislike any of them (in those I have watched of course)

What is your Favourite Garbo Picture?


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
I don't know. May be I would love her in every role she would have been in.

Your Garbo story:
(in Treatment)
 

Questionaire 19

NAME:     Werner
GENDER:     Male
COUNTRY:     Germany
DATE:     03/08/2007

When did you became a Garbo fan?
When I was a little boy of 10 years watching ANNA KARENINA


Your first Garbo experience?
That one mentioned above

What is your favourite Garbo silent?
THE SINGLE STANDARD


What is your favourite Garbo talkie?
CAMILLE


Are you also fascinated by her real life personality?
To be honest: not in every relation. I can't accept some things she decided. But don't ask  me for details. That's my little secret.

Which other classic stars do you like?
Marlene Dietrich, Zarah Leander, Jeannette MacDonald, Greer Garson, Robert Taylor, Errol Flynn, Rock Hudson

Do you think that she had comedian talent?
Oh yes, definitely. She had her sense of humour although it was a very special one. Thinking of NINOTCHKA she played her part very believable and convincing. Quite a different Garbo, a very human one. I don't consider her as a stand up comedian but she surely was an actress who could show comedian talents.


Had Garbo, in your opinion, an influence on other actresses (during and after her own career)?
Sure, no question, still today. Garbo was the divine, the goddess of the silver screen. No one before or after her will achieve that reputation or can be as beautiful as she was. Her style was copied, the kind of photographs, Garbo in advertising, Garbo as absolute figure head. So many actresses wanted to be similar or tried it at least regarding make up, hairstyle, fashion etc. She was the close up star. Garbo's face on the screen and nothing else. The personified beauty. She inspired so many actresses who wanted to get filmed like Garbo. They all envied her, they all adored her but mostly they didn't want to confess their feelings.  Because they all knew - Garbo will always be out of reach.

If you would have met Garbo and you would be allowed to ask her one question?
I wouldn't have liked to put a question. I just had wanted to touch her softly and to smile at her. A tender, silent understanding…

What is your favourite Garbo style?
I love the wonderful gowns by Adrian who was a real artist for me. That's why I like the costume movies such as ROMANCE, ANNA KARENINA, CAMILLE or CONQUEST so much. Garbos face and those extraordinary and unique costumes fit excellently together. Beauty for beauty. What a combination!
      

What is your favourite Garbo co-star?
Robert Taylor in CAMILLE - he was the perfect partner in that role and the only one I can imagine. They were the perfect couple in the most perfect movie.


Which Garbo Film do you dislike?
AS YOU DESIRE ME


Which Garbo Co-star do you dislike?
Erich von Stoheim in AS YOU DESIRE ME. I know, he was talented, a great director as well. But watching him in that movie, I always feel getting a bad stomach….


What is your Favorite Garbo Picture?
Without hesitating a second: Garbo's most beloved movie, CAMILLE. After my opinion she never looked more beautiful. Unique and incredible. She proved her best performance and the most impressing achievement of her whole career, unforgettable und unattainable for all future.


If Garbo would have made a Comeback film what role would you have loved her to play?
Mary Stuart. Opposite Marlene Dietrich as Elizabeth. What an imagination! (thoughts are free….)

Your Garbo Story
I was a little boy , maybe 10 years old. I saw her the very first time on TV as Anna Karenina. I was so fascinated by her face and her appearance. When she commits suicide in her role at the end of the film, I was totally shocked and cried, couldn't believe that such a beautiful woman is able to do that because of her familiar situation and another man. I couldn't forget her face and that final scene. Later I saw CAMILLE and QUEEN CHRISTINA. I was magnetized. That scene as Christina where she touches all objects in the pension room while John Gilbert is watching her, had an immense impression till today. Whemn we were in Hollywood and infront of her house on 1717 San Vicente Blvd. I had to touch the big cypress infront of the doorway, knowing that also Garbo had surely done this. To touch precious things.Yes, Garbo accompanied me, always. And then, almost 20 years ago, I found an album containing 80 Ross cards portraying that unique face. I was so fascinated. I bought the album and started to collect. So I became a Garbo collector after the Garbo admirer. And because of Garbo I met so wonderful people who became true friend. Because of Greta. She did it.... Garbo forever.....