Greta Garbo by Cecil Beaton

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Beaton on his first photographic session with Garbo 1946 -
"At first she stood stiffly to attention, facing my Rolleiflex full-face as if it were a firing squad. But, by degrees, she started to assume all sorts of poses and many changes of mood. The artist in her suddenly came into flower. She was enjoying the return to an aspect of the métier that had been her life's work. Could I believe my luck? By degrees I was emboldened enough to ask if she would take off her habitual sweater. Then I brought out some 'prop' clothes -- a pierrot's ruff and white pointed hat..
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  • @randyfloyd560
    @randyfloyd5602 жыл бұрын

    I only saw her once. But maybe that's all we are allowed. It was the summer of 1979. I was thirteen and my parents had sent me to Europe for a few weeks. We had gone to Paris and I'd hoped I'd see Dietrich, but instead I found Garbo, standing in the crowd of people looking down at Napoleon's Tomb. For a moment I though, she looks familiar, and when she looked at me I knew. She smiled, index finger to her lips, and disappeared. Thank you for the lovely images.

  • @paolazuffinetti
    @paolazuffinetti10 ай бұрын

    BEST DIVINA Pictures by artist photographer. ETERNAL BEAUTY NEVER FADES. That's the way She really... IS. Rare document to be treasured. Thanks for showing it!!!

  • @katecartmell2267
    @katecartmell22675 жыл бұрын

    She looks so thoroughly modern - a strong woman ahead of her time. Beautiful

  • @merce10554
    @merce105544 жыл бұрын

    Timeless beauty. A truly work of love from this great photographer. Thanks.

  • @leonardothierry
    @leonardothierry8 жыл бұрын

    The chemistry between a photographer and his/her model is one of those things no one could ever explain. A hint (just that) could be that Garbo didn't trust many people. She did Beaton, totally. And he genuinely loved her with all his heart and mind. In the right hands their story could make a great film. This documentary is a gem. Wonderful to be able to watch it.

  • @steveburton2997
    @steveburton29973 жыл бұрын

    She lives on in film and spirit!

  • @bethpeters3187
    @bethpeters31874 жыл бұрын

    So beautiful thank you. I just had a custom oil painting of Garbo done. My favorite actress.

  • @LenoxSusan
    @LenoxSusan11 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding pictures of the world's most beautiful creature. Thanks for sharing. ♥ Garbo forever ♥

  • @DrewWasMe
    @DrewWasMe3 жыл бұрын

    Great collection of photos and a really nicely put together montage. Love it.

  • @curtite
    @curtite10 жыл бұрын

    These pictures are new to me. They're naturally wonderful, especially her on the couch or looking out the window. I heard of her in a Madonna song but noticed her first on water colors found in an attic of a restored mansion near my home. Thank you for sharing this video and it's music.

  • @lamprinitzo
    @lamprinitzo5 жыл бұрын

    thanks, so lovely music with my Greta... thanks...

  • @michaelmottlau5941
    @michaelmottlau5941 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful montage about the friendship between two sensitive and intelligent human beings. I feel her loneliness and vulnerability but also her strengt to be different in some aspects of her life in these photos. Life in the 1950s was much more conservative. Did she ever find love in her life?

  • @suedodd23
    @suedodd2311 жыл бұрын

    The ones of her lying down on a sofa are very beautiful - thanks for watching.

  • @gretagarbo8458
    @gretagarbo84582 жыл бұрын

    No es ella ni la más bella ni tampoco la mujer perfecta, ella sencillamente es Greta Garbo y es insuperable, única en verdad, no hay otra.

  • @richardmcleod1930
    @richardmcleod19302 жыл бұрын

    She trusted Cecil Beaton a great deal in allowing him to photograph her. She must have been terribly hurt when she found out he had turned them over to VOGUE magazine for publication. A great friendship was lost in Cecil Beaton not honoring her request for the photographs to remain private.

  • @michaelmottlau5941

    @michaelmottlau5941

    Жыл бұрын

    Richard McLeod. Is this a fact (the truth) that the friendship was lost? How do you know. Is it perhaps your own reflections and thoughts?

  • @richardmcleod1930

    @richardmcleod1930

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michaelmottlau5941 The actual truths regarding the life of Garbo may truly never be known. Regarding Beaton, I have read where she visited him during his last days at his home as he was quite ill and practically a complete invalid. If this is true (which I would like to believe is true), then she did again visit an old friend for a last goodbye to a dying friend of many years with the full realization she would never see him again.

  • @michaelmottlau5941

    @michaelmottlau5941

    Жыл бұрын

    @@richardmcleod1930 Thank you for your answer, Richard. I watched another KZread video yesterday saying that Greta ended their relationship after Cecil released his second book of his diaries notes telling in details about his relationship with her. Especially that she was the love of his life and he wanted to marry her. Greta was a very private person and she trusted Cecil, but after the released the book she never forgave him for his lack of discretion. Some years later he had two strokes and she did visit him a last time as you explained.

  • @luizberg6849
    @luizberg68493 жыл бұрын

    Garbo ,. nosso amor. 🥀

  • @suedodd23
    @suedodd2311 жыл бұрын

    Ruth Harriet Louise was a wonderful photographer - her portraits of Garbo are stunning.

  • @silvanacapurso4275
    @silvanacapurso42753 жыл бұрын

    Bellezza divina! In ogni tempo.

  • @candycarter2027
    @candycarter20277 жыл бұрын

    such a talented woman what a waste to have retired so young

  • @suedodd23
    @suedodd2311 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Scott - I'll check out your blog and the photographs , I must look out for the Garbo book as well its not one I've got in my collection. Many thanks - Sue

  • @sshowgirl933

    @sshowgirl933

    4 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for this gorgeous pictures

  • @dragicapetrovic9470
    @dragicapetrovic94709 жыл бұрын

    divine Greta Garbo i excellent Cecil Beaton ~

  • @ScottLordnovelist
    @ScottLordnovelist11 жыл бұрын

    Thanks-n the Google art project on You was looking at Cecil Beaton and recently I've been writing about Ruth Harriet Louise.

  • @craigbeasley1
    @craigbeasley19 жыл бұрын

    I see a very beautiful woman. Yet, isn't there a hint of a man in her spirit? Just so lovely.

  • @TheCWMHALL
    @TheCWMHALL Жыл бұрын

    In his diaries he says he had an affair with her , she was not well pleased he wrote about it .

  • @shannonk.6528
    @shannonk.65282 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful collection of photos, most which I had never seen. I wonder what age range she was in these photos?

  • @federicovazzola_
    @federicovazzola_11 жыл бұрын

    che musica è? bello il video

  • @songbirdy
    @songbirdy11 жыл бұрын

    The clown photos are interesting. Garbo had wanted to play a clown in full makeup. People thought she was nuts. But she wanted to play a clown where everyone thought she was a man, but in reality was a woman. Only later when too much time had passed did some think she had a rather ingenious idea.

  • @michelparahy
    @michelparahy4 жыл бұрын

    Vidéo réussie . "Rêverie" de Debussy donne,mélancoliquement , le ton . Un visage dans ses multiples états , autant d'éclats .

  • @richardm239
    @richardm2395 жыл бұрын

    it was rumored that garbo was actually a man, these photos dont help to dispel that rumor fabulous none the less

  • @christophepena2212

    @christophepena2212

    5 жыл бұрын

    What you see is her androginy...but she's utterly feminine...there's no rumor of her to be a man...only in 2019 with that new american obsession of transexuality...

  • @songbirdy

    @songbirdy

    4 жыл бұрын

    richardm239 No. Garbo was not a man. Her childhood in Sweden, her quick rise to stardom in her early 20's, all of her life being in the public eye, all highly documented and verfiable....where do these stupid notions come from?

  • @morellawalker373

    @morellawalker373

    2 жыл бұрын

    Garbo was not a biological man, but she Was the Epitomy of Androgyny! She often referred to herself as a boy, and she had many affairs with women (read "the sewing circle").