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Greta Garbo COLORIZED Digital Art (Download)

$2,999.99
7.645 inches x 9.973 inches @ 400 pixels/inch resolution
photograph digital enhancement copyright Van Sverigen Technologies
      
    Sitter circa 1925

    Greta Garbo, 18 Sep 1905 - 15 Apr 1990
      
    Greta Garbo was the biggest star at MGM Studios during the late silent–early sound era, when American movie attendance was at its all-time high. Her success lay in an angular, flawless beauty and a performance style rooted in subtly expressive eyes set against an otherwise enigmatic countenance. Garbo was nicknamed the "Swedish Sphinx" for conveying a coolness that has been variously described as alluring, indifferent, melancholy, and aloof. The filmmaker Billy Wilder explained, "Her face . . . has such uniqueness, such luminosity that . . . you read into it what you like." Garbo signed a contract with MGM in Sweden but was seemingly forgotten when she arrived in New York City. She planned to return home until company president Louis B. Mayer saw this and other portraits taken by Arnold Genthe that captured her photogenic mystique. Within days Garbo was bound for Hollywood. In retirement she became the most famous recluse in America.
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