A 1955 biography by the late John Bainbridge of the US (not to be confused with the English writer and footpath campaigner of the same name), which while a little superficial at times, eschewed probing the more private parts of this rather private lady's life. A star who contrived to make a virtue out of not behaving like your regular star and a writer with old-fashioned manners.
I share just one snippet. In reference 1 I talk of early retirement. This turns out to be not quite right. She might have packed up early, but this was the result of a mauling over a bad film called 'Two-face Woman', released & censored in 1941. She retired hurt from the scene, but continued to look at and think over projects for films for years to come, sometimes coming close to action but not, in the event, making it. The project coming closest being perhaps that to have her star in a film of the life of George Sand, yet another strange bird, who as well as having an affair with Chopin, liked to wear male attire instead of the complicated female attire of her day.
Anyone wishing to share the experience can do so for 1p plus £2.67 postage, rather more if you want a dust jacket (which I did not get), from amazon. I continue to puzzle about why people would bother to sell a book for this price - a practice which seems to be quite common on booky web sites. Wanting to find a good home for your old books is all very well, but it is a lot of bother.
The illustration, from google, illustrates the sort of thing she had to put up from studio publicity departments before she had became famous enough to put a stop to it.
Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/christina.html.
Reference 2: or for the whole lot, http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=garbo&max-results=20&by-date=true.
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