Greta Garbo
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Museum of London Docklands appeals for missing pieces whose influential creators have been overlooked
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The Danish actor was a cinema pioneer and wildly popular all over the world. She is largely forgotten – discover her in a BFI season dedicated to her extraordinary talent
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The renowned editor wittily explores the appeal of the actor, whose ability to charm and mystify mesmerised admirers – until her abrupt retirement in the age of the ‘bombshell’
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The actor knew she could never really be happy, but somehow she got by in her pink apartment in New York
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Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen
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It’s 1970, and the Observer has an interview with the film director who claims to have made Garbo one of the world’s most famous women
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The star told her closest friend of her isolation in a series of notes that are now up for auction
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Chaplin and Keaton made millions laugh, but silent cinema’s greatest classics were the fruit of wild European fancy … and then Hollywood invented the talkies
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Depression-era audiences escaped into a whirl of glamour, fantasy and monsters in a decade that ushered in Hollywood’s golden age
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Brief letters: Taking babies to work | Ray of sunshine in Brexit gloom | Starling murmurations | Charles Dickens | Masked cricketers
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Actor wrote to a Swedish friend about her loathing for Beverly Hills and fears over how her films would be received
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Women might not wish to be lumped in with any old bloke in a dodgy Western, says Katharine Whitehorn
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Hey baby ... it’s time to define what gender means through the medium of music. Slip us your suggestions, and in title, lyrics or style, it might be a sexy week, says Peter Kimpton
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 10 May 1930: Garbo's appeal is more to the intellect than to the senses. She does not use her voice to woo or to lure
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Greta Garbo is a delight in this biopic of the exotic dancer executed for espionage, and the supporting moustaches a special treat
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A new exhibition looks at the timeless personal style of one of Hollywood's most famous stars
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Originally published in the Observer on 6 October 1935: She has become the archetype of the cinema woman, adulated, burlesqued, imitated, envied
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France's first lady may not know how to handle a baguette when on camera, but she's added to Woody Allen's roster of beauties
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Alone time: reassessing Greta Garbo, 100 years after her screen debut