Garbo
แแแ. 2021 ยท Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | One of Esquire's 125 best books about Hollywood
Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.
โWherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,โ Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, โGreta Garbo is in peopleโs minds, hearts, and dreams.โ Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the worldโs subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the worldโand that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessedโwas rivaled only by Marilyn Monroeโs. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naรฏve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the worldโs most famous actress.
In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the worldโher desperate, futile striving to be โleft alone.โ He takes us through the films themselves, from M-G-Mโs early presentation of her as a โvampโโher overwhelming beauty drawing men to their doom, a formula she loathedโto the artistic heights of Camille and Ninotchka (โGarbo Laughs!โ), by way of Anna Christie (โGarbo Talks!โ), Mata Hari, and Grand Hotel. He examines her passive withdrawal from the movies, and the endless attempts to draw her back. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New Yorkโโa hermit about townโโand the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. Her relationships with her famous co-star John Gilbert, with Cecil Beaton, with Leopold Stokowski, with Erich Maria Remarque, with George Schleeโwere they consummated? Was she bisexual? Was she sexual at all? The whole world wanted to knowโand still wants to know.
In addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls โA Garbo Reader,โ brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo from other peopleโs memoirs and interviews, ranging from Ingmar Bergman and Tallulah Bankhead to Roland Barthes; from literature (she turns up everywhereโin Hemingwayโs For Whom the Bell Tolls, in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and the letters of Marianne Moore and Alice B. Toklas); from countless songs and cartoons and articles of merchandise. Most extraordinary of all are the picturesโ250 or so ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshotsโall reproduced here in superb duotone. She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of Garbo is essentially the story of a face and the camera. Forty years after her career ended, she was still being tormented by unrelenting paparazzi wherever she went.
Includes Black-and-White Photographs
Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.
โWherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,โ Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, โGreta Garbo is in peopleโs minds, hearts, and dreams.โ Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the worldโs subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the worldโand that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessedโwas rivaled only by Marilyn Monroeโs. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naรฏve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the worldโs most famous actress.
In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough retelling of her life, beginning in the slums of Stockholm and proceeding through her years of struggling to elude the attention of the worldโher desperate, futile striving to be โleft alone.โ He takes us through the films themselves, from M-G-Mโs early presentation of her as a โvampโโher overwhelming beauty drawing men to their doom, a formula she loathedโto the artistic heights of Camille and Ninotchka (โGarbo Laughs!โ), by way of Anna Christie (โGarbo Talks!โ), Mata Hari, and Grand Hotel. He examines her passive withdrawal from the movies, and the endless attempts to draw her back. And he sketches the life she led as a very wealthy woman in New Yorkโโa hermit about townโโand the life she led in Europe among the Rothschilds and men like Onassis and Churchill. Her relationships with her famous co-star John Gilbert, with Cecil Beaton, with Leopold Stokowski, with Erich Maria Remarque, with George Schleeโwere they consummated? Was she bisexual? Was she sexual at all? The whole world wanted to knowโand still wants to know.
In addition to offering his rich account of her life, Gottlieb, in what he calls โA Garbo Reader,โ brings together a remarkable assembly of glimpses of Garbo from other peopleโs memoirs and interviews, ranging from Ingmar Bergman and Tallulah Bankhead to Roland Barthes; from literature (she turns up everywhereโin Hemingwayโs For Whom the Bell Tolls, in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and the letters of Marianne Moore and Alice B. Toklas); from countless songs and cartoons and articles of merchandise. Most extraordinary of all are the picturesโ250 or so ravishing movie stills, formal portraits, and revealing snapshotsโall reproduced here in superb duotone. She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of Garbo is essentially the story of a face and the camera. Forty years after her career ended, she was still being tormented by unrelenting paparazzi wherever she went.
Includes Black-and-White Photographs
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Robert Gottlieb (1931 - 2023) was a legendary book editor and writer who shaped the modern literary canon. He was editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the head of Alfred A. Knopf, and editor of The New Yorker. He contributed frequently to The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, and the New York Observer as dance critic. His books include Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, Avid Reader: A Life, and a collection of essays Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others. In 2015, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A documentary film exploring his fifty-year relationship with the writer Robert Caro, Turn Every Page, was released in 2022.
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