Screen Secrets: Greta Garbo Breaks her Silence (1928)
Greta Garbo: 9 citations0 J'aime
Greta Garbo: Citations en anglais
Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (1955)
As the Russian ballerina Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932), she had said "I want to be alone." These words had become associated with Garbo herself in the public imagination.
Allegedly said on a movie set, after a director had filmed repeated takes of Garbo jumping into icy cold water, and wanted to film yet another take. Reported Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 30-31.
Misattributed
Cecil Beaton, Book of Beauty (1930) <br class="br">Source: http://www.garboforever.com/Beatons_Book_of_Beauty.htm
Roland Barthes, "The Face of Garbo," Mythologies (1957), trans. Annette Lavers [Farrar, Straus, 1986, ISBN 0-374-52150-6], p. 56
“The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.”
Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952), ch. 9, p. 172: Duels with the Screen
“Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.”
Kenneth Tynan, "Greta Garbo," Sight and Sound (April 1954), republished in Profiles (1990), p. 80
Marie Dressler, My Own Story as Told to Mildred Harrington (1934)
