Gender Somewhere Between Conrad “the Prettiest Girl In Paris” Veidt And Greta “the Ideal Leading

Joan Fontaine in This Above All (1942)

Greta Garbo photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull for Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, July 8, 1931.

GRETA GARBO & JOHN BARRYMORE in GRAND HOTEL 1932 │ dir. Edmund Goulding

Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (1927, dir. Clarence Brown)

“I think that just being alive is a tremendous opportunity.”

The first scene of Flesh and the Devil Greta Garbo and John Gilbert filmed together was the scene at the train station where their characters meet.  The immense chemistry between the two of them was obvious to everybody on set.  There was no denying there was a very real connection with them and as their scenes got more passionate, they had no problem keeping their performances up.  Clarence Brown, the movie’s director, said of them:

“It was the damnedest thing you ever saw. It was the sort of thing Elinor Glyn used to write about. When they got into that first love scene…nobody else was even there. Those two were alone in a world of their own. It seemed like an intrusion to yell “Cut!” I used to just motion the crew over to another part of the set and let them finish what they were doing. It was embarrassing.”

- Clarence Brown

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