(1) Gay icon Greta Garbo was one of Sweden's most famous movie exports.
(2) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
(3) Hollywood, England: The British Film Industry In The Sixties (1974) was particularly outstanding, and his biographies of Peter Sellers (1981) and Elizabeth Taylor (1990), and books on Greta Garbo (1980), Marlene Dietrich (1984), Bette Davis (1986), Joan Crawford (1983) and others were a model of their kind.
(4) By then, Salinger had become "the Garbo of letters", living a fiercely defended private life in rural New Hampshire, a town named Cornish.
(5) I used to pretend I was Louise Brooks or Greta Garbo in my bedroom,” she says mimicking her younger self.
(6) He didn't like being interrogated about them though; if I asked him about Greta Garbo [with whom he is said to have had an affair] , he went completely silent.
(7) If anything, there is a slight falling off in sustained comic writing when Boot gets to Ishmaelia; plot takes over as Waugh explains how William accidentally stumbles on his scoop, and the introduction of some love interest – in the form of the Garbo-esque young German woman Kätchen – is the one mis-step in the book.
(8) Garbo was a neighbour in Manhattan and was a creature of very regular habit.
(9) Many of the great icons of femininity were shaped or designed by gay men: Joan Crawford by William Haynes, Marlene Dietrich by Travis Banton, Greta Garbo by Adrian, Judy Garland by Roger Edens, Marilyn Monroe by Jack Cole.
(10) MI5 was never sure whether this threat was serious or not, but was adamant that she could not be allowed to leave the country for fear that she would not only betray her husband, but the entire deception operation of which Garbo and his fabricated espionage network was just one element.
(11) Before that, there were several fiascos which culminated with Greta Garbo refusing to accept him as her leading man in Queen Christina.
(12) Juan Pujol García, a Spaniard who was working for MI5 under the codename Garbo, had tricked his German spymasters into believing he ran a network of agents in Britain.
(13) I can't do it, sighed Mason; I'm set to play the male lead in La Duchesse de Langeais - which was to be the comeback picture for Greta Garbo.
(14) In her first new pictures for five years, Sherman, the face that launched a thousand gender-studies PhDs, has cast herself as the ageing Hollywood diva, channelling Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.
(15) But we will have The Men, Zapata, On The Waterfront, The Fugitive Kind, The Chase, The Godfather, Last Tango ... it is enough, I suspect, for him to become as representative of cinema as Garbo, Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
(16) Norman Fay, High Spen, Gateshead Yes, there are a number of movies I would love to see rediscovered, one of which is the film The Divine Woman , which was one of the silent movies of Greta Garbo, directed by Victor Sjöström, the man who before Ingmar Bergman was the greatest Swedish film director and who went on to play the professor in Bergman's Wild Strawberries .
(17) Sitting with Michael Munn, biographer to the stars, in a somewhat bleak pub near his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, I can't get out of my head that classic Pete 'n' Dud sketch in which the flat-capped Peter Cook reveals to Dudley Moore the problems he is having being harassed by the likes of "bloody Greta Garbo".
(18) His Heathcliff in that film was blazingly romantic enough even for Garbo, who was apparently amazed if only as a spectator.
(19) Many men attended her salons (André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Esra Pound, TS Eliot, F Scott Fitzgerald, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore) but the real glory of her guest list was its women: Colette, Mata Hari, Isadora Duncan, Nancy Cunard, Greta Garbo, Peggy Guggenheim, Edna St Vincent Millay, Janet Flanner, Françoise Sagan.
(20) It also included the last ever appearance of Greta Garbo on film.