| Garbo on Set - Part V |
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USA 1933 - Queen Christina
Before shooting the ending of Queen Christina, Garbo asked Mamoulian: “What do I express in this last shot?” He answered: “Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You must make your mind and your heart a complete blank. Make your face into a mask.”
   
Those Milton Brown photo shows director Rouben Mamoulian and cameraman William Daniels shooting Garbo and John Gilbert for Queen Christina. Garbo tried to boost Gilbert's self-confidence during filming. “She knew that I was nervous, raw, almost sick with excitement and the thrill of the thing,” said Gilbert. “And never once did she fail in consideration of me.”
 
Screenwriter S. N. Behrman said that Garbo “identified with the character of Queen Christina.... Maybe it was Garbo's idea that as a queen she could do anything she wanted.”
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USA 1934 - The Painted Veil
Garbo prepared herself before shedescending the stairs for a two-second crane shot directed by Boleslawski. When W. S. Van Dyke reshot the scene, he asked Garbo: “Listen, honey, how many ways are there of coming down a staircase?”
  
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USA 1937 - Conquest
   
   
   
 
Taking the time to compose and light an on-the-set portrait of cast and crew such as this was considered too costly by the late 1930s. Conquest was the last Garbo film to enjoy this luxury. Photograph by William Grimes.
The photo is rumoured to be shoot during the big polka rehearsal of the film.
Some say this picture from the film is in real color and some say it is colorized.
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USA 1939 - Ninotchka
 
Director Ernst Lubitsch claimed that Garbo was totally uninterested in mirrors during the making of Ninotchka.
  
Garbo on the set of her 1939 comeback in Ninotchka.
  
Lubitsch explained how he directed Garbo: “I would go to her with a suggestion, saying, ‘This is how I see the scene. Now you go away and think it over.' And she would go into a corner, all by herself, and brood.”
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USA 1941 - Two Faced Woman
   
   
Garbo's anxiety about the troubled production of Two-Faced Woman was compounded by her fear of aging.
   
At first Garbo told Cukor that she did not want to be shot in a bathing suit. |
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| SOURCE
Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy – by Mark A. Vieira |
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