Showing posts with label Goldenlight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goldenlight. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

How do you like your Garbo?

Garbo in 1931, via nomadpoetry tumblr

 My oldest girl-crush, dating to the time when as I child I watched for the first time Grand Hotel, Greta Garbo has remained over the years a source of fascination and wonder.

I like her young
 
via whywonder tumblr

photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise, 1926, via paperspots tumblr
 
I like her sporty
via cinemaemcena tumblr
 via ticstar tumblr

in The Kiss, via doctormacro

  I like her mannish

via anpham tumblr

via doctormacro
and I like her moody

via the islandofshalott tumblr 

 vampish

in Goldenlight, via whywonder tumblr 

 all woman

  via whatalovelydame tumblr

 sinful and fatale
in The Temptress, via doctormacro

yet a pure, out of this world beauty
credits as above

Playfully seductive


 credits as above

 and completely seduced - yet far away, intangible still:


with John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil, 1926
pics via timetravelteam and whywonder tumblr

I like her modest get ups in Anna Christie:
via doctormacro

and the ostentatiously glam astrakhan, giving her the air of a Russian princess, in Romance:
Romance, 1930, photos by G Durrell
via fascinationdreams and sourvix tumblr

I like her in velvet
 via doctormacro

 in knits:

in a Woman of Affairs, via doctormacro

via fusckyesoldhollywood tumblr

and in pyjamas

via laqueredinblack tumblr

I like her hatless


and I most certainly like her hatted!


 via doctormacro

 I even like the defensive smile
 via sourvix tumblr

the disbelief
via phi1123581321 tumblr
 the frown
 via therubythroatedsparrow tumblr

and ALL that drama.
The Temptress, via doctormacro