It’s A Pity You Have To Grow Up.

North By Northwest [1959]

BLONDE VENUS dir. Josef von Sternberg

Greta Garbo, 1955

OH Street Style 

Elizabeth Taylor, Venice, Italy (1950)

Katharine Hepburn, New York (1934)

Bette Davis, Hollywood (1939)

Greta Garbo, Capri (1955)

“I don’t know how I should have managed if I had not been cast opposite John Gilbert .  .  . Through him I seemed to establish my first real contact with the strange American world. If he had not come into my life at this time, I should probably have come home to Sweden at once, my American career over.”

~Greta Garbo on John Gilbert and her career

Frida and necklace. A Gallery For Fine Photography : Lucienne Bloch : Freedom & Frida

Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupino, 1961

Favourite Leading Ladies:

 ↳ Greta Garbo - 18 September, 1905 - 15 April, 1990

“Her true genius was as a listener, I have frequently observed that the opposite of talking is not listening, but waiting. Garbo reversed this. She actually preferred to listen. She had the ability to concentrate totally on what you were saying, as if nothing else in the world mattered. All else vanished, all that existed was you, and what you were telling her. And I believe that somewhere in that area lies the whole secret of her greatness as a screen actress: the ability to exclude everything but the moment, to exist only for right now, before the camera, or before whomever had captured her interest.”

Greta Garbo c. 1928

↳ Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)