Christopher Bray

Beautiful enigma: Garbo’s mystery lives on

Robert Gottlieb is just the latest biographer to try to uncover what lay behind those large, dark, fathomless eyes

‘I shall die a bachelor’, Garbo presciently declared as Queen Christina in the 1933 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. [Alamy]
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  • Garbo: Her Life, Her Films

    Robert Gottlieb

    Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, pp. 437, £32

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