Ideal beauty : the life and times of Greta Garbo / Lois W. Banner.

"Based on ten years of in depth archival research in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and France, Ideal Beauty is the definitive biography of Greta Garbo as well as a major study of Euro-American concepts of ideal female beauty in the years between World War One and World War Two, encompassi...

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Main Author: Banner, Lois W. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Garbo glorified and demonized -- Childhood -- PUB, Dramaten, and Mimi Pollak -- Beauty and the Beast : Garbo and Stiller -- Hollywood -- The agony and the ecstasy : Garbo and John Gilbert -- Friends and lovers -- Changing fashions : from flapper to glamour, plus Adrian -- The Pre-Code Era -- Breaking free : Queen Christina -- Denouement -- Success and failure -- New York -- Summing Up. 
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