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] 
issue 15 January 2022

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