Greta Garbo (1905-1990), b. Gustafsson, actress, from the film Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise (Robert Z. Leonard, 1931)

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DateringFotograferad: 1931

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Måtth x b: Mått 33,5 x 26,7 cm

InventarienummerNMGrh 5160

FörvärvInventarieföring 2018 (Inköp 2017 med Ulla och Gunnar Tryggs gåvomedel)

Andra titlarTitel (sv): Greta Garbo (1905-1990), f. Gustafsson, skådespelare, rollporträtt ur filmen Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise (Robert Z. Leonard, 1931) Titel (sv): Greta Garbo (1905-1990), b. Gustafsson, actress, from the film Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise (Robert Z. Leonard, 1931)

BeskrivningBeskrivning: Graham Greene wrote with great admiration about Garbo in film reviews in the 1930s. Roland Barthes analyzed her face in the essay “Le Visage de Garbo”, published in Mythologies (1957). David Bowie sang “I’m the twisted name on Garbo’s eyes” in “Quicksand” on the album Hunky Dory (1971). The myth of Garbo is far greater than the sum of Greta Gustafsson’s life and roles. Paradoxically, the photographic still image of the actress’s face is more famous today than her role interpretations and films. Most of the well-known pictures of Garbo are role portraits produced by still photographers who worked for her film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, among them Clarence Sinclair Bull. In the early pictures of the then newly arrived actress in 1925, Garbo had not yet been styled to the persona later created for her in Hollywood. By 1931, when this photo was made, she had become one with the film industry’s official image and it was difficult to distinguish the person from the characters in her roles. This role portrait from Susan Lenox; Her Fall and Rise shows the actress as a kind of femme fatale, variations on a theme that occurs in most of Garbo’s films. Beskrivning: Graham Greene wrote with great admiration about Garbo in film reviews in the 1930s. Roland Barthes analyzed her face in the essay “Le Visage de Garbo”, published in Mythologies (1957). David Bowie sang “I’m the twisted name on Garbo’s eyes” in “Quicksand” on the album Hunky Dory (1971). The myth of Garbo is far greater than the sum of Greta Gustafsson’s life and roles. Paradoxically, the photographic still image of the actress’s face is more famous today than her role interpretations and films. Most of the well-known pictures of Garbo are role portraits produced by still photographers who worked for her film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, among them Clarence Sinclair Bull. In the early pictures of the then newly arrived actress in 1925, Garbo had not yet been styled to the persona later created for her in Hollywood. By 1931, when this photo was made, she had become one with the film industry’s official image and it was difficult to distinguish the person from the characters in her roles. This role portrait from Susan Lenox; Her Fall and Rise shows the actress as a kind of femme fatale, variations on a theme that occurs in most of Garbo’s films.

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