Greta Garbo -- Model, Actress, Recluse, Part 2 of 2

 

 

I'm on summer vacation and next week I'll continue the series on Greta Garbo's films. In the meantime, here are more photos of the actress; I posted a number of earlier pictures last week. 

 

Here's Garbo in 1935, sailing to Sweden for a visit. She's thirty years old in this photo. 

 

 

In 1937, when Garbo was thirty-two, she starred as a Polish countess in "Conquest."

Here's a 1938 pulbicity shot. Garbo was thirty-three.

Cecil Beaton took this famous portrait of the actress in 1940, when she was thirty-five, around the time of "Ninotchka."

This publicity photo is from around the time of Garbo's last film in 1941, when she was thirty-six, and suddenly too old to be a love interest in a Hollywood movie.

Another Cecil Beaton portrait, taken in 1946, at the Plaza Hotel. Garbo was forty-one and had been retired from the movie business for about five years.

One more Cecil Beaton portrait, and one of my favorites. This was taken in 1965, when Garbo was sixty.

I called Garbo a 'recluse" in this two-part photo series, and she WAS reclusive towards the press and the public. She did have friends and preferred small gatherings rather than parties.Beautiful women pay a terrible price in their senior years, when photographers stalk them, trying to catch unflattering photos. It's nice to see her smile in the 1960s photo.

Next week: Back to the summaries of Greta Garbo's films, in TV Guide style