Joan Fontaine Eating At A Restaurant In Torcello Island, Venice, 1952.

CARY GRANT in THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK dir. Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen

Greta Garbo, March  1933

JOPPER + KISS

Hey, I’m gonna die someday. But not today. I’ve still got a date to make, remember? I don’t know, Hop. This time, it’s gonna be different. It better be. I am not having another funeral.

Greta Garbo c. 1928

North by Northwest (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

I must go now or I’ll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke.

JOAN FONTAINE as Lina in SUSPICION (1941) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

jopper + touching

Greta Garbo photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1948

“Love”   ,1927

 Greta Garbo (1905 - 1990) plays Anna Karenina in the romantic drama ‘Love’, directed by Edmund Goulding. She embraces her on-screen lover Alexei Vronsky, played by John Gilbert (1899 - 1936).

gender somewhere between Conrad “the prettiest girl in paris” Veidt and Greta “the ideal leading man” Garbo