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Ideal Beauty (eBook, PDF)

The Life and Times of Greta Garbo

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the silver screen's greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Garbo kept viewers riveted with understated performances that suggested deep melancholy and strong desires roiling just under the surface. And offscreen, the intensely private Garbo was perhaps even more mysterious and alluring, as her retirement from Hollywood at age thirty-six only fueled the public's fascination. Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the mystique, a woman who overcame an impoverished childhood to become a student at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy, an actress in European films, and ultimately a Hollywood star. Chronicling her tough negotiations with Louis B. Mayer at MGM, it shows how Garbo carved out enough power in Hollywood to craft a distinctly new feminist screen presence in films like Queen Christina. Banner draws on over ten years of in-depth archival research in Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States to demonstrate how, away from the camera s glare, Garbo s life was even more intriguing. Ideal Beauty takes a fresh look at an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century and provides answers to much-debated questions about Garbo s childhood, sexuality, career, illnesses and breakdowns, and spiritual awakening.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978806535
• Artikelnr.: 72342707

Autorenporträt

LOIS W. BANNER is a professor emerita of history at the University of Southern California. She was the first female president of the American Studies Association. Her many books include Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox and American Beauty.  

Inhaltsangabe

PROLOGUE
Who Was Greta Garbo? 
PART I. THE STEICHEN PHOTO
1 GARBO GLORIFIED AND DEMONIZED
PART II. MATURING
2 CHILDHOOD
3 PUB, DRAMATEN, AND MIMI POLLAK
4 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Garbo and Stiller
PART III. THE STAR
5 HOLLYWOOD
6 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Garbo and John Gilbert
7 FRIENDS AND LOVERS; ANNA CHRISTIE AND GARBO’S ACTING
PART IV. CHOOSING SIDES
8 UNDERSTANDING ADRIAN
From Flapper to Glamour
9 THE PRE-CODE ERA
10 BREAKING FREE
Queen Christina
11 DENOUEMENT
PART V. CELEBRITY
12 SUCCESS AND FAILURE
13 NEW YORK
14 SUMMING UP
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index