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This revealing and insightful biography of screen icon Greta Garbo contains over 100 luxurious photos from her films and her life. ... Read more

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Awful - just awful
THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST AWFUL "BOOK" ON MS. GARBO I HAVE EVER READ.THERE ARE SO MANY BLATANT LIES, ERRORS, MISTAKES, MIS-CAPTIONED PHOTOS, ETC. THAT I WOULD NOT KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN TO STATE THEM.I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER SEEN SUCH POOR RESEARCH!
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN - NEVER DID THIS AUTHOR WRITE ANYTHING CREDIBLE.HE NEVER WROTE ANYTHING OF MERIT IN HIS LIFE.
TRUE ADMIRERS OF MS. GARBO--PLEASE--READ KAREN SWENSON'S EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHY "GARBO - A LIFE APART".THIS IS SUPERB IN EVERY WAY - TRUTH, RESEARCH, INSIGHT, LIFE STORY, LOVE FOR JOHN GILBERT, SCANDANAVIAN ANGLE, ETC., ETC.
PLEASE - READ THIS EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHY OF THIS EXQUISITE, UNIQUE ACTRESS - ONE WE WILL NEVER SEE THE LIKES OF AGAIN!

The life, work and legacy of a truly glamorous woman
Researched and written by historian and biographer Robert Payne, The Great Garbo is a thoughtfully presented and informative biography of the great film actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990), a woman who mesmerized the movie-goers of the 1920's and 1930's. It was Garbo's silver screen stories helped America cope during the depths of the Great Depression and left a lasting impression on American popular culture that continues to this very day. The 120 black-and-white photographs add a superb visual touch to this very highly recommended tribute to the life, work and legacy of a truly glamorous woman. ... Read more

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Chapters: James Monroe, Jim Henson, Charlie Parker, Dylan Thomas, Ring Lardner, Greta Garbo, Mary Mallon, Christopher Reeve, Les Paul, Dan Decarlo, Lorenz Hart, Christy Mathewson, Manuel Quezon, John A. Roebling, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Tallulah Bankhead, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Khalil Gibran, Brooke Astor, Bert Williams, George Balanchine, Jay Gould, Tony Randall, Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu, Joshua Lederberg, Anne Lynch Botta, Florence La Badie, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Richard A. Proctor, Wallace Thurman, James Michaels, Julia de Burgos, Nat Finkelstein, Charles Griffes, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Bert Lahr, Adelaide Crapsey, James "Bubber" Miley, Joe Cuba, Minor C. Keith, Benjamin Smith Barton, Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, Marie Knight, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, Burt Glinn, Dick Sudhalter, Hiroaki Aoki, Lucius Robinson, Phil Reed, Elisha Perkins, Elliott Danforth, Robert P. Bush, Judith Vladeck, Robert Woodruff Anderson, George Crockett Strong, John Young, John Bogart, Jennie Mcgraw, John Cunneen, Harry Bellaver, Eliot Asinof, Sylvan Fox, Peter T. Curtenius, Elaine Cancilla Orbach, Hannah Van Buren, Thomas Carmody, Cinders O'brien, Harold Lockwood, John R. Cumpson, Ada Clare, Hub Collins, Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., Ward Pinkett, Felix Arndt, George Gebhardt, Phoebe Brand, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Jack Aranson, Alvin Cooperman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 484. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (pronounced ; October 11, 1884 November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally promi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19280644 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Brigitte Bardot, Koo Stark, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton-John, Greta Garbo, Sandra Day O'connor, Adamari López, Jennifer Jones, Sheryl Crow, Nancy Reagan, Melissa Etheridge, Marcia Wallace, Peter Criss, Cynthia Nixon, Marianne Faithfull, Hendrikje Van Andel-Schipper, Shirley Temple, Carly Simon, Carly Fiorina, Gloria Steinem, Dianne Primavera, Christine Gregoire, Jane Hamsher, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Marsha Hunt, Anastacia, Janet Napolitano, Christina Applegate, Betty Ford, Jean Simmons, Nancy Brinker, Suzanne Somers, Jaclyn Smith, Meredith Baxter, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, Desirée Rogers, Minnie Pearl, Ruby Dee, Edward Brooke, Kate Jackson, Cokie Roberts, Lynn Redgrave, Lili Chookasian, Rita Reys, Edie Falco, Agnes Chan, Diahann Carroll, Laura Ingraham, Gloria Stuart, Suzyn Waldman, Rue Mcclanahan, Susan Kadis, Carol Bartz, Linda Ellerbee, Julie Harris, Marilyn Lloyd, Donna Deegan, Ann Jillian, Sondra Locke, Amanda Mealing, Jean M. Doerge, Kitten Natividad, Sheila Hancock, Sarah Susanka, Trisha Goddard, Raelene Boyle, Peggy Fleming, Diana Dill, Eileen Brennan, Ruth Handler, Rita Fan, Betsy Rawls, Alexandra Bastedo, Richard Roundtree, Jill Eikenberry, Bárbara Mori, Wenche Foss, Shelley Morrison, Nellie Connally, Phyllis Newman, Sarah Dougher, Hoda Kotb, Patrícia Pillar, Star Weiss, Happy Rockefeller, Taryn Power, Anna Belle Clement O'brien, Julianne Buescher, Claire Rayner, Annie Haslam, Masumi Miyazaki, Ruth Ann Swenson, Corinne Wood, Kaye Ballard, Hala Moddelmog, Simone de Oliveira, Kelly Corrigan, Maeve Kinkead, Allyce Beasley, Satu Hassi, Lyn Swinburne, Diana Moran, Margaret Foster, Heidi Heitkamp, Jocelyn Newman, Jami Bernard, Laila Morse, Sandy Mccain Morgan, Nancy Priddy, Annie Wells, Claire Shulman, Betty Degeneres, Lydia Clarke, Vanessa Echols, Calypso Rose, Betty Rolli... ... Read more

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Chapters: Greta Garbo, Walter Hellman, John Ericsson, Annika Sörenstam, Carl Oscar Borg, Peter Stormare, Harry Nyquist, Inger Stevens, Ann-Margret, Joe Hill, Ulf Samuelsson, Hjalmar Peterson, Art Spiegelman, Walter Hoving, Charles G. Widdén, Godfrey Lundberg, Thure Kumlien, Abraham Fornander, Janne M. Sjödahl, Magnus B. Egerstedt, Claes Oldenburg, Charles August Lindbergh, Gustaf Tenggren, Warner Oland, Henry Reuterdahl, Olof Hanson, Thure de Thulstrup, Siv Cedering, Olive M. Johnson, Viveca Lindfors, Tor Johnson, Astrid Varnay, Eric Jansson, A. W. Norblad, Oscar Cesare, Lars-Eric Lindblad, Ernst Alexanderson, Gustavus Hesselius, Gustaf Unonius, Andreas Rudman, Laurentius Carels, August Hjalmar Edgren, Eric Norelius, John W. Nystrom, Eric G. Gibson, Amandus Johnson, Adolph Olson Eberhart, Olof Krans, John Lind, J. Hugo Aronson, Carl Skoglund, Olof Persson Stille, A. J. Carlson, Oscar Malmborg, Eric Pålsson Mullica, Arvid Nyholm, Ivor Thord-Gray, Nils Hasselmo, Måns Andersson, Pehr August Peterson, Samuel Peterson, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Matson, Ove Johansson, Olive Fremstad, Peter David Edstrom, Reorus Torkillus, Erland Carlsson, John Brynteson, Lars Paul Esbjörn, Otto Folin, Erik Lindblom, Oscar Hedstrom, John B. Johnson, John W. Nordstrom, Ernst Skarstedt, Gunnar Widforss, Magnus Johnson, Carl Seashore, Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, K. G. William Dahl, Axel John Beck, Bo Svenson, Eugénie Söderberg, Birger Sandzén, Johan Risingh, Tuve Hasselquist, John Alexis Edgren, Waldemar Lindgren, Signe Hasso, Jonas Bronck, Swante M. Swenson, Carl Strandlund, John Elof Boodin, Hans Bergström, Swan Turnblad, David Nyvall, Charlie Hallstrom, Charles Magnus Lindgren, Axel Carl Johan Gustafson, Magnus Colcord Heurlin, Carl Wickman, August Höglund, Nicholas Gustafson, Gideon Sundback, Birgit Ridderstedt, Thorsten Sellin, Charles A. Read, Knute Heldner, Emilie Hammarskjöld, Mary Anderson, Julius Hjulian, Nathaniel Schmidt, Jonas Swensson, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=102100 ... Read more

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Chapters: David Bowie, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Gore Vidal, Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Nell Carter, Alan Bates, Anthony Perkins, Michael Redgrave, Cynthia Nixon, Laurence Harvey, Denholm Elliott, Julian Beck, Dennis Price, Angelina Jolie, Leslie Cheung, Megan Fox, Tallulah Bankhead, Tila Tequila, Josephine Baker, Alec Guinness, Gertrude Lawrence, Richard Cromwell, Farley Granger, Fergie, Alan Cumming, Andy Dick, Jack Wrangler, Jerome Robbins, Anne Heche, Miranda July, Kay Francis, Megan Mullally, Alla Nazimova, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pam St. Clement, Nina Hartley, Jack Cassidy, Duncan James, Eleonora Duse, Casey Johnson, Kristanna Loken, Joe Dallesandro, Beatrice Lillie, Anthony Rapp, Frédéric Mitterrand, Kathleen Bryson, Peggy Fears, Brenda Benet, James Rado, Kenneth Mackenna, Henry Ainley, Sook-Yin Lee, Raúl Esparza, Ada "Bricktop" Smith, Tim Kincaid, Helmut Berger, Peter Max Lawrence, Erin Brown, Mike White, Brock Pierce, Maria Schneider, Armen Ohanian, Sharon Mitchell, Thea Gill, Frances Faye, Coral Browne, Hurd Hatfield, Thane Bettany, Dack Rambo, Gene Raymond, Craig Parker, Anita Berber, Julie Goodyear, Alison Garrigan, Grover Dale, Ryan Idol, Iyari Limon, Eric Emerson, Gustaf Gründgens, Alec Powers, Stephanie Sellars, Amanda Barrie, Ione Skye, Karina Lombard, Jonah Falcon, Ona Munson, Ruby Dandridge, Ondine, Mimi Pollak, Bella Darvi, Dreya Weber, Cyril Nri, Inge Meysel, Kate Siegel, Marie Dorval, Jessica Graham, Jon Vincent, Mlle Raucourt, Cyril Collard, Blyth Daly, Gabriel Romero, Ada Dwyer Russell, Erica Gavin, Glesca Marshall, El Hedi Ben Salem, Ty Fox, Pablo Puyol, Christian Marquand, Albert Mol, Pierre Palmade. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 711. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5792809 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1041 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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A sequenced set of visual/verbal neologisms deconstructing the mystique of Greta Garbo, film star. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Anja Pärson, Ingrid Thulin, Kajsa Bergqvist, Anita Ekberg, Brigitte de Suède, Margot Wallström, Victoria de Suède, Therese Alshammar, Caroline Winberg, Anna-Karin Kammerling, Inger Nilsson, Madeleine de Suède, Katarina Frostenson, Maud Olofsson, Laila Freivalds, Kerstin Ekman, Charlotte Lindström, Louise Jöhncke, Anna Lindh, Carolina Gynning, Sarah Sjöström, Mona Sahlin, Wendela Hebbe, Beatrice Ask, Emma Igelström, Anna le Moine, Birgitte de Suède, Ulrika Bergman, Eugenie de Suède, Camilla Thulin, Anitra Steen. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Ingrid Bergman (29 août 1915 à Stockholm, Suède - 29 août 1982 à Londres, Royaume-Uni) était une actrice suédoise. Après avoir tourné quelques films en Suède, le producteur David O. Selznick lui propose d'être la vedette de Intermezzo en 1939. Sa popularité s'accroit avec chaque film: Casablanca et Pour qui Sonne le Glas, Hantise, qui lui vaut l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice, et Jeanne d'Arc. Elle connaît son apogée dans trois films d'Alfred Hitchcock: La Maison du docteur Edwardes, Les Enchaînés et Les Amants du Capricorne. Elle est victime d'un scandale lorsqu'elle part rejoindre le metteur en scène Roberto Rossellini, laissant derrière elle son mari et sa fille, pour tourner Stromboli. Les attaques conjointes de groupements religieux, d'associations féminines et même de politiciens la font bannir du cinéma américain pendant une période de 7 ans. En 1956, elle tourne à Paris avec Jean Renoir Elena et les Hommes, puis à Londres Anastasia, qui lui vaudra son deuxième Oscar. Elle est entrée dans l'histoire du cinéma comme l'une de ses plus grandes actrices. En 1999, l'American Film Institute l'a ainsi distinguée comme la quatrièm...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more