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Vickers fails in his attempt to demystify Greta Garbo. Clearly he found more material than he could use while researching Cecil Beaton , his biography of the famed photographer of British royals and other glitterati, but still not enough for a successful Garbo analysis. Over a 30-year period, Beaton sent hundreds of letters to Garbo, preserving carbon copies. "My Darling Sugar Plum," as he once called her, was an elusive and frustrating lover, although they seem to have enjoyed some energetic sexual encounters. "Sunday morning had been put to its ultimate use," Beaton wrote after one amorous encounter. Garbo's off-again, off-again relationship with him is paralleled in this plodding account by a long-lasting lesbian affair. Garbo met playwright Mercedes de Acosta--who dressed only in black and white--in 1931, and their frequently troubled relationship continued until the early '60s. The supporting cast here is full of famous names, all dutifully footnoted, but somehow Greta Garbo succeeds after her death in doing what she did so often in her lifetime: she slips away unobserved. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Vickers has capitalized on his position as Cecil Beaton's literary executor to write this account of the relations between Greta Garbo, sometime writer de Acosta, and designer-photographer Beaton. Most of the book consists of previously unpublished entries from Beaton's diaries and letters from Beaton to Garbo, but Vickers does utilize other sources, including interviews (though there are none with his three principals). Interest in this book will likely be limited, as it is more concerned with Beaton than Garbo. In addition, Garbo's (and Beaton's) bisexuality is old news by now. Finally, the book is primarily concerned with the years following Garbo's last film, a period during which, by all accounts (including Vickers's), Garbo's life was mostly unhappy and boring. For comprehensive collections.
John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan,
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Vickers fails in his attempt to demystify Greta Garbo. Clearly he found more material than he could use while researching Cecil Beaton , his biography of the famed photographer of British royals and other glitterati, but still not enough for a successful Garbo analysis. Over a 30-year period, Beaton sent hundreds of letters to Garbo, preserving carbon copies. "My Darling Sugar Plum," as he once called her, was an elusive and frustrating lover, although they seem to have enjoyed some energetic sexual encounters. "Sunday morning had been put to its ultimate use," Beaton wrote after one amorous encounter. Garbo's off-again, off-again relationship with him is paralleled in this plodding account by a long-lasting lesbian affair. Garbo met playwright Mercedes de Acosta--who dressed only in black and white--in 1931, and their frequently troubled relationship continued until the early '60s. The supporting cast here is full of famous names, all dutifully footnoted, but somehow Greta Garbo succeeds after her death in doing what she did so often in her lifetime: she slips away unobserved. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Vickers has capitalized on his position as Cecil Beaton's literary executor to write this account of the relations between Greta Garbo, sometime writer de Acosta, and designer-photographer Beaton. Most of the book consists of previously unpublished entries from Beaton's diaries and letters from Beaton to Garbo, but Vickers does utilize other sources, including interviews (though there are none with his three principals). Interest in this book will likely be limited, as it is more concerned with Beaton than Garbo. In addition, Garbo's (and Beaton's) bisexuality is old news by now. Finally, the book is primarily concerned with the years following Garbo's last film, a period during which, by all accounts (including Vickers's), Garbo's life was mostly unhappy and boring. For comprehensive collections.
John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan,
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan on 18 pages
- That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta (Theater in the Americas) by Robert A Schanke B.A. M.A. Ph.D. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention by Martha Gever on page 147, and Back Matter
- Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers in Front Matter
- Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta (Theater in the Americas) by Robert A Schanke B.A. M.A. Ph.D. in Front Matter
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