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Barry Paris draws on a wealth of hitherto unavailable material - ranging from Garbo's drama school notebooks and her unpublished letters to an astonishing set of a hundred taped conversations, recorded during her later years in New York, as well as interviews with her surviving friends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 less

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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

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Genres
Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
791.43Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsMovies, TV, VideoMotion pictures, radio, television, podcastingMotion pictures
LCC
PN2778 .G3 .P35Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)DramaDramatic representation. The theaterSpecial regions or countries
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