Elliot, I Want To, I Want To, But I Can’t. Why Not? Because What If It Doesn’t Work Out? And What

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Joan Fontaine in This Above All (1942)

Garbo being her completely enchanting self

So this happened…

A private Garbo – Photos from her personal collection, 1930s.

Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous. Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932)

“I’ve always been athletic at home, sledding and tobagganing in winter, skiing a bit. Tennis a lot. Swam, of course, at Long Island Sound, winter and summer, still do. Golf, I played a good game. The golf clubs stay in a barrel now, I don’t play anymore. But I do still enjoy tennis. I’ve got a bad back, a bad ankle, and I’m 85, so I have my own rules. I get two bounces…Great game, tennis. In the next life, I plan to be a Wimbledon champion.”—Katharine Hepburn

"Shut up, I'm rich! I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash! "

Sunset Blvd, (1950)

Director. Billy Wilder.