“Garbo is a revolutionary in many ways. She swims against the tide, she is a nonconformist (or

“Garbo is a revolutionary in many ways. She swims against the tide, she is a nonconformist (or rather she does not conform to the ideas others have of her and of what she “should” do). She has always resented the cheap sentiment of most of her roles on the screen, and she dislikes sentimentality in any form; yet she is capable of moaning “Alles ist verwahrlost” at the least provocation. Garbo’s physical mystery — and mastery — still apparent today, was not the creation of the wizards of Hollywood. Although they cast her in stereotyped roles, they could not diminish her ability to entrance both men and women. Garbo’s inescapable magnetism could not be defined, but it could be exploited. And whatever private grief it may have cost her when she built her wall around herself and let the world regard her as an enigma if not an outright curiosity, she has never let herself be exploited again.” The Divine Garbo by Frederick Sands & Sven Broman. -- source link

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