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Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)Swedish-born US film actor. She went to the USA in 1925, and her captivating beauty and leading role in Flesh and the Devil (1927) made her one of Hollywood's greatest stars. Her later films include Mata Hari (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), Queen Christina (1933), Anna Karenina (1935), Camille (1936), and Ninotchka (1939). Her ethereal qualities and romantic mystery on the screen intermingled with her seclusion in private life. She retired in 1941. |
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He has played, worked, drunk, and palled around with the creme de la creme of the 20th century--Greta Garbo, JFK, Bette Davis, Amelia Earhart, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Princess Margaret, and Grace Kelly. Those three adjectives, by the way, perfectly describe the Violetta of soprano Elizabeth Futral, who sings the fallen woman at the heart of this tale -- a story some may know better in its silver-screen incarnation, the Greta Garbo vehicle ``Camille. Yatkin set about reading all the literature--factual and fictional--on her subject and seeing the movies (the three most popular screen protagonists were Greta Garbo, Jeanne Moreau, and Sylvia Kristel). |
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