Greta Garbo, RIP. (obituary)

National Review | May 14, 1990 | Copyright

THE SINGLE WORD "Garbo" defined a whole era in movie history, signifying an enchanment beyond mere glamor. Greta Garbo gave the screen some of its most affecting tragic moments in Anna Karenina and Camille, and some of its most deliciously funny in Ninotchka. Even in lesser roles she was incomparably watchable, like a cat, a flame, a waterfall: she had no human rivals.

It was a happy accident that her existence coincided in time with the movie camera, and at a time before Hollywood required young actresses to strip and swear and be raped and splattered; defilement ...

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