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Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks  

SPENCER TRACY & KATHARINE HEPBURN in WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 │ dir. George Stevens

SPENCER TRACY & KATHARINE HEPBURN in WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) — dir. George Stevens

I don’t want to be married to Tess Harding any more than I want you to be just Mrs. Sam Craig. Why can’t you be Tess Harding Craig? I think it’s a wonderful name.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as Sam Craig and Tess Harding in WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) dir. George Stevens

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

GRETA GARBO in GRAND HOTEL — 1932, dir. Edmund Goulding

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)

SPENCER TRACY & KATHARINE HEPBURN in WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 │ dir. George Stevens

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

When in Italy, you should meet Italians! SUMMERTIME (1955), dir. David Lean

good old-fashioned lvr boy | buster keaton

Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)

John Gilbert & Mae Murray in The Merry Widow (1925)

“To try and explain my real feeling for Greta would be impossible since I really do not understand myself. I do know that I have built up in my emotions a person that does not exist. My mind sees the real person — a Swedish servant girl with a face touched by God— only interested in money, her health, sex, food and sleep. And yet her face tricks my mind and my spirit builds her up into something that fights with my brain. I do love her but I love the person I have created and not the person who is real.” — Mercedes de Acosta. 

🍃75 years ago, in April 1946, British photographer Cecil Beaton organized a photo shoot for Greta Garbo at the Plaza Hotel in New York. This was their first, but far from the last joint work.

All pictures are copyrighted by: «The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s»

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The Duchess of Langeais screen-test by William Daniels, 1949.

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

Greta Garbo and Clark Gable in Susan Lenox Her Fall and Rise (1931)

Greta Garbo on the set of Camille, 1936

Greta Garbo with  Robert Taylor  in  film “Camille”, 1936

“Leon, I want to tell you something which I thought I would never say… which I thought nobody ever should say… because I didn’t think it exists. And… Leon, I can’t say it.”

Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in the 1927 film “Love”

Greta Garbo and Nils Asther in the silent film “The Single Standard” (John S. Robertson, 1929)

“She could engender those feelings. She was a wonderful mixture of strength and sensitivity, wisdom and caring. She was full of humor, logic and practicality. Above all, she knew who she was. She was the best friend you could have. You could never be safer with anyone. She spoke to you with her eyes; they were magical, and you knew that she was even more beautiful on the inside.” 

 — Stuart D. Saal 

 Photograph by: Cecil Beaton (1946)

Greta Garbo, c. 1927