Garbo - Softcover

Paris, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081664182X ISBN 13: 9780816641826

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2002

Synopsis

Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka. In this richly illustrated volume, renowned biographer Barry Paris offers the definitive biography of this fascinating and complex woman -- from her hardscrabble childhood in Sweden to her arrival in Hollywood at the age of nineteen, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her unintentional retirement from filmmaking at the height of her fame, from the new life she crafted for herself to her surprising, and failed, plans for a comeback. Drawing on hitherto unavailable material, including one hundred hours of tape-recorded conversations, fifty years of correspondence, and interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, Paris reveals the real woman behind the enigma.

About this title

About the Author:

BARRY PARIS is the author of Louise Brooks. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and American Film. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the actress and singer Myrna Paris, and their two children.

From AudioFile:

Aficionados of early international and Hollywood filmmaking will find much of interest in this biography of Garbo. Anna Fields does an admirable job keeping the story moving as it weaves through the various periods of Garbo's life and discusses the many well-known people through whom the story is pieced together. Fields's sardonic and wry style fits well the public persona of Garbo. The one aspect of the book that makes the audio format tedious is the extensive quoting of taped telephone conversations between Sam Green and Garbo. The constant repetition of "SG" or "GG" to designate the speaker would be easily skimmed over in print. Moreover, despite assurances that Garbo realized the taping was being done, hearing these conversations gives one the uneasy sense of being an eaves-dropper on this woman who spent so much of her life guarding her privacy. J.E.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 081664182X
• ISBN 13: 9780816641826
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672