“What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.”

— Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan, "Greta Garbo," Sight and Sound (April 1954), republished in Profiles (Harper Collins, 1990, ISBN 0-06-096557-6), p. 79

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English theatre critic and writer 1927–1980

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