1955-08-06 — Page 7

She's Still The Greatest Star

Of Them All

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GARBO WITH ROBERT TAYLOR

fle was full of promise in the 20-year-old "Camille "

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by LEONARD MOSLEY

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1955.

HERS IS AN ETERNAL MYSTERY

THE

GARBO STORY

Garbo

was the

the same calary. At the time, she was being peld $500 a week. Quito'n raise) L. B. gasped, Diplomatically. the Swedish atar left financini discussions to her manager, who then pulled the best financial - deal on re- for ch actress up to that

cord time.

I put down the telephone. Turner and Rita Hayworth? Or tired She made 24 films, the last in 1942 ... but

Look, kid, you'd better. the Italian types like Lollo and go Home. You look dead." That was it. Greta Gustafson Podesta and Anna Magnani?

He got a straight five-year even today she is still big news wherever, Who

Garbo closed her eyes, Slowly will be 50 on

for Garbo at $5,000 From 1030 1942, Grols she said: "Dead? Dead? I have corhasi of this year, she goes. And she is still the great enigma. September 18

a week for fifty-two wee most marked been dead many years." simply doesn't have to make Instance of glamour

in Holly

In her 15 or 10 years of annually. His argument: Gar What is hor magic? This is the first part of another film, or ast, or do any wood's films. The moment she stardom kit Metro-Goldwyn bo's rervlees were available to

thing she doesn't care to.

appeared on the screen, you Mayt Studios, Garbo made the audio every weeks of the a new probe into a great star's personality

yer, therefore she ought to be One thing about Greta Garbo.

paid for them. that is for from mysterious.

T

By

MICHAEL RUDDY

Hollywood. tired

sensed u. vibration, a challenge. 24 films,

Her deliberate way of moving, In the mid-1930's, other film her contralto voice, husky and stars began to take on some of This was indeed a departure. She is a wealthy woman, owns vibrant, with a Swedish accent, her apparent qualities, They Contracts in Hollywood are for apartment blocks in Stockholm, her

finesse copied her long bob, her long property in New York, property rystalised into a face at once eyelashes, plucked their

li Beverly Hills, And has substantial holdings in stocks

and I am glad

to come and bands,

HE night was windy, back. I want to rest."

Recently she asked Sidney Unusual, for late To me, she looked radiant. Guilaroft, head hair-stylist at and one ol July. Stars gleamed There was colour in her checks MGM Studios, in the cloudless sky, where the wind had caught her. Garbo's few close friends in Hollywood, whether she should and there was now and then No make-up except scarlet inke another picture. a scent of orange blossom lipstick and mascara on her long as the wind changed and yelashes shadowing her grey- came in from a small section blue eyes.

of orange groves to the I moved back as a veteran re- southeast of the Los Angeles porter snapped. "Miss Garbo, International Airport.

are you in love? Are you going to be married?"

classic

I Was waiting for an She stiffened in her seat. Her American Airlines plane to lips tightened and she turned arrive from New York.

A away.

showing that friend in the American Air- profile,

has which a profile lines' Los Angeles office had thrilled and delighted millions tipped me that a most in- of moviegoers all over the world. teresting VIP' was coming She was silent. Then, softly: in it. Two cameramen und three reporters stood near the gate.

The aircraft landed on time.

hatless

wind.

Wonun

of WUS tull, whose long-

HE lovely face and a beard in 1955, was a romantle Passengers disembarked, and the

luminous

personality youngster of Ineffable promise.

To these two, and to all the last to come Greta Garbo are others, Garbo exudes an offer- back on the screen again vescence of tender and touch. bobbed hair was bared by the proving, with devastating ng emotion that has never been

She wore dark glasses, And I am not being a dark suit and flat-heeled shoes, power that those who have bettered,

ald-fuat when រ "cnocked" her are wrong.

"There she is!" sald one of that she truly is the greatest

He the camerammen,

rushed star of them all.

forward, took three quick shots.

Have any other women of the

reached screen ever Garbo's palpitating. cestatie heights?

say that

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doubt if anyone will ever reach your heart in quite the same way again,

What in "Camille" all about? It is that old Dumas story of the sophisticated horlot of last- tury Paris whose head tells

her to expend her favours on the rich men who besiege her.

On,

young

who

The woman strode out quickly, lacked around, saw #waiting timousine and ran into it.

"Please, I do not want to talk about that.”

"Da you need the money?" Guilaroff pointedly asked her.

"Oh, no. I have all the money I shall ever need," she said.

"Then

just leave things as, they are. Don't ever go back."

he advised.

Explaming his forthright advice to her, Gullaroff says:

Inşeiriation and

Greta Garbo as she looked in an early picture.

"Sho starred in some of the catest Alms Hollywood has ever made. Garbo is undoubted- ly one of the truly great actresses of motion pictures. She left at her height, thirteen years ago, Her and she is now a legend.

'Camille' films speak for her. The reporter said his generaud Ninotchka'

ore in remembered her with deep

ogain being What shown,

more can she as a great actress add? She has a freer life today. admiration and he hoped she would again?

She has good friends do a movie.

in New

ew lovely, rhapsodic, gay and sad York and in Europe and are, if these were elements of m in she wants them. She is certainly comparable quality in her ceting. not alone or friendless.

Yet always there was a re- LIES, I agree with you, she still believes moteness, a mystery. that her private life is her own.

Garbo was alcol. Perhaps That's her privilege. It may

this aloofness may have indicated sadness of the spirit, a desire

"I am very pleased and very thankful

to be remembered," she said. And with a winning smile sho added: "But it is all over now. Good night,"

cause

Umes,

her

ombarassment

at

It didn't in London or I see her, and to do for psychio escape. many others she likes to be with!"

Her luggage, three bags in all, had been put in the back of the Paris, 1 and drove off.

A middle-aged woman got

car.

h

but whose heart yearns for the I name these lais as being penniless worthy of a place in the same

She worships the grounds she walks

few days later I learned Jake upper wir S Greta

sat back in the rear seat, took she was staying with a friend Gurbo:-

vit her glasses. I had followed of mine, Harry Crociter, who close behind, almost running to lives a short distance

from mu MARLENE DIETRICH for her

memorable portrayals of

keep up with her,

on Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills. 11

I rang him. woman who knows too much about men-bul NU! makes men wont to tell her more;

BETTE NAVIS for the bone- crushing strength of her grip upon overy character plays; and .

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

depth of seling

her personality.

Most Effective

"Miss Garbo," I said quietly,

She dies while trying to make up her mind which to choose.

"Harry, I'd like to talk with 1 is the weeplest and most looking in through the open your house guest. Would you... effective deathbed scene of the window. "You've been uway century. You may have no tears from Hollywood Over a year. to shed when you to to see It,

0100

but

sko

them.

for

the

Garbo will And some in- Have you any yout and make you shed another motion picture?"

He interrupted quickly: "Sorry, plans to make She has nothing to say, Michael, and you know I'I set up a date for you she'd have to see every- one. Sho's going to Santa Bar- bara tomorrow," he said. --

Eyes half-closed, she replled Two young men. who knew in that fascinating, husky volee: shakingly simple sincerity of nothing of Garbo before this "No. I have no plans, inm "All right, Harry. Do

film, came out of it ahead of

you

me.

cald one of them. All his com-

"Didn't she die lovely, through with acting and motion think she'll do another film?"

pictures," A pause. A gesture "Er-I don't think so. She

have to,'

he replied

Was nod.

of Kanchenjunga sho panion had the strength to do with her hand, strong, graceful, doesn't

These are great stars, but while

they have reached the aununit has sealed the Everest of artistic achievement,

These Libels

She proves it again when one

of her greatest fillins, CAMILLE

has been revived. And what are they saying about her?.

"Oh yes," they say, "she was i

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a beautiful girl. But what dremy girl too. She was pain- fully lovely to look at, She had a volee ke #broken-hearted nightingale, But hearts?

Emotions? Human feelings? On

no, Garbo was a girl with lec

in her veins,"

fingernails untinted. "I am very tersely.

YOU MAY PROBLEM

Last year in Vienna, "Arina Karenina, in which Carbo starred 21 years ago, was shown at the biggest cinema. People queued up for a quarter of a nille around the cinema to see her again.

What is the pecullar magie of Garbo's films?

What is this mystery about her that seems eternal? What is her particular glamour, to different ip the lusty and busty variety that Hollywood sells today in the persons of Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Esther Willams, Lana

FACE OF MRS

THE

X

OCTOR, please help By A HARLEY-STREET PSYCHIATRIST

"D

me. I'm terrified

1 shall kill my

children." She buried her

problem 10 a doctor. Express: "The danger

Said the

Woman

herself tho in the

part.

Now comes the tricky

wishes-which, These hidden remember, you do not know

So where do such unreason- about-are always active, al-

is real; able fears

this is where

Please. please, please don't face in her hands and wept, the need for action is urgent."

Twenty

belleve

these libels.

years after it was made 1 look-believing

41 "Camille" and I heard wickedest

ed Garbo

sigh and I watched her world.

laugh and shake her head of

to break through. Somehow your conselous mind

come from? Well, ways trying

I shall probably make you cry "Rubbish," or has got to stop that. It has to Mra X's plight even make you angry. For I defend itself that is, YOU

at am going to suggest that fears against these impulsen,

like these serve to conceal a secret wish to do just the thing the person is afraid of.

agree. may well be urgent. But least I can give her the assur- once I gave Sally:-

"Do not believe you are wicked, .or basically different The from other women, three young

long hair. And, brother, it was Sally was an intelligent an experience.

and attractive woman of

If

you have ever lost your 32. Happily married. faith In womanhood, this is the mother of woman to restore it.

HEALTHY

defends itself is through fear. That is why, when a for- bidden wish threatens to break through, you feel afraid.

And that goes for YOU too. ONE of the ways in which it Have you never had the "All women and men too- sudden split-second fear that children. And, as she Was have similar problems in come you might get up in church and You need help only do cartwheels down the aisler your problem has Or shout "Boloney" - in the exaggerated beyond middle of a sermon?

No female of the specles who suspiciously eager to assure degree. . can project her sex across the me again and again, she because

screen in this way can ever beadcred those children. called dull.

The curious

the

That cagerness gave thing about "Cunille" Is that, though it game away. She did adore her was made before any 28-year children, of course;

but what old film fan was born, it seems she did not tell me, BECAUSE 11:0

DID

KNOW IT SHE

NOT a muperter kind of con- temporary picture. It feels as THEN, was thall she could also

it were made this morning and hate them.

is being served up red-hot to

the audience. It beats out its

story like your own pulse.

HATE

become

what is normal,"

CONTROL

You were afraid because you WANTED to do those things, although, of course, you prob ably did not know it then und HAVE had many patients would no doubt strongly deny

ilke Mrs X. like Sally.

now. Women terrified that they would kor hurt their children, someone else they love.

or

Eccret

But, whether you like it or not, such a fear is almost always a'self-defence against a And men patients. Men filled with, buried deep inside you, lo with ears of losing control over do something that would get. her wicked? some hidden hatred or violence, you into trouble, In the least Every Men like Derek, for instance. mother may hate, as well as

He came to me. because he her children-though she

abnormally afraidi were may not know it and

Would Was

knocking someone down

An Effervescence DIR

ID that make

It is not only Garbo who looks love

and sounda as if she

Not

emoling and suffering now. probably hever admit it.

The other players around her

his car.

PRIMITIVE

parently outrageous state- ments. You know about

Now can you see what hap- poned to Sally? And perhaps, too, to Mrs X7 Sally, at least, towards had strong impulses hatred and hostility in the unconsious part of her mind and in that she was no differ- ent from the rest of us,

Sho hod to learn that and normal as mother-love, and is mother-hale is as healthy no cause for guilt or shame.

Mothers are, after all, only children grown up-and chlidren sometimes hate their parents, however much they love them too. That is where it all begins. with Now let me explain these ap-

Now perhaps I shall get some the angry lottern from "loving" might have been caught ́ ́, DE In fact, I expect most their moment of fulfilment, in ] móthers will be furlous, with

Do you notice anything about unconscious mind, of course. mothers who cannot bear the

la mu nha

*rio; Ɖo`unmixed after, ali.. this Olm-and have never been me even for suggesting it. But his fear, and the fears of people. It has been with us for years idea that maybe their love is ་' pó good, or so real, again.

like Sally and Mrs X7, They w it is true.

your.

· it... may save a few all have one thing in common mind in two parts-be

You probably picture N

Well,1 con- stamps If I mention one other Elizabeth Allen, for instance, I pleture that patient of they are UNREASONABLE.

acidus or respectable part, the defence the conscious mind. The woman with the bare ming up a younger edition of

have NEVER known YOU and the unconscious somet lines puta up. Anger, shoulders and sophisticated Mrs X, the 63-year-old woman mother like Sally actually kiit, part

which is not

When someone respectable.

violently manner whom you see on TV who wrote anonymously to or oven hurt, a chilch. Such Well, that picture is roughly" angry about an Ides", you can panel games theso-tlays was a Dally Express: "I am being fresh and liling seamstress in tortured by something in my mothers are usually most con- right. The unconscious part of be pretty sure it uncomfort

scientious, and devoted.' mind which tells me I must tako a child's life."

"Camiller

your mind contains all those ably true.

4. *་

primitive wither and driver So if you are furious † about which would you n

.. Bimilarly, I have never known

pealed" to "Mei · X to take her knock anyone down.

Robert Taylor, who is a dull the Dally Expres has ap- a imam lice, Perry, sanky

vaches of a trouble. If you over things you have read the this

Kave way to them,

It may be apocryphal: The story goes that the late W. S. Van Dyke, directing one of her flims, Fald to her late one after- noon: "Greta, you cok dam'

a year, with salary for 40

eye

weeks, 12 weeks being used at the studlo option as a "lay-off" period.

And

that Herry invested salary very carefully for her.

And Garbo checked the ac- counts herself,

She lived simply--inany say frugally. If something wasn't necessary in the running of the house she leased on Chovy Chaso Drive, Beverly Hills, it wasn't bought,

She

never entertained lavishly, never gave a typical Hollywood perly. and почет

Camera

gove

to the presenta crew, make-up man, wardrobo woman, hairdresser or publicity. people at the end of a film,

In fact, she never gave pre- vents!

Income texts were low in her period of stardom. Like many Europeans' in Hollywood, sho bought land property, Today her holdings are many times more in value than what she paid for it in the depressed 1930's.

Garbo was "canny” in her financica affairs. Two days be fore the banks closed in 1933, she went to her bank in Bever-

until they looked likely Hills and withdrew the con- brows penell lines; but not one attained tents of her safety deposit box, Ber special form of, glamour.

Nor did they attain her carn- ing power.

I knew the late Harry Eding- ton who became her manager. He was John Gilbert's business manager, and when Garbo co-star was learned that her

n week she being paid $5,000 intimated to Edington and studio chieftain L. B. Mayer that she would like to have

$350,000 in cash.

How did she know that all bank funds and deposits would be frozen?

It's a good question. And it is confirms the report that she wealthy and never work again.

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