Garbo: A Biography
by Barry Paris
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"No other twentieth-century artist in or out of film so captivated the world or spent so much energy trying to hide from it. To bring her out of hiding, Barry Paris draws on a wealth of hitherto unavailable material - ranging from Garbo's drama school notebooks and her unpublished letters to an astonishing set of a hundred taped conversations, recorded during her later years in New York, as well as interviews with her surviving friends and family in Sweden and America." "Paris's biography show more supplants the legend of Garbo the "enigma" with a revelation of the real woman, whose grip on our imagination remains as powerful today as it was almost seventy years ago when she dazzled the world in Flesh and the Devil."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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Flesh & the Devil, Camille, Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina, and Anna Christie. I've seen most of her films, all of them being classic old Hollywood. She was truly a great movie star!
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Garbo: A Biography
- People/Characters
- Greta Garbo
- Important places
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dedication
- FOR THE BIG GUY AND MISS K -
WHO WERE ALWAYS THERE - Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
- LCC
- PN2778 .G3 .P35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
- BISAC
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (4.14)
- Languages
- 5 — English, Finnish, French, German, Polish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 1
