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Post by david on Oct 4, 2004 14:00:42 GMT -5
 Garbo was "the gloomiest Scandinavian since Hamlet," said critic Alastair Forbes, and the gloom hardly lessened with age." Garbo said "I've messed up my life" in 1977,  "and it's too late to change that. These walks are just an escape. When I walk alone, I think about my life and the past....I am not satisfied with the way I made my life." New York had everything, "but what use is that to me? I might just as well live on a deserted island. I'm restless everywhere. I always have been....If only I knew where to go." Garbo said "I'm a sour little creature"
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Post by david on Oct 8, 2004 8:19:16 GMT -5
 Hello...I read a book "Divine Garbo" by Frederick Sands/Sven Broman...about her unhappy life! "When Sven Broman asked Sorensen whether he thought Garbo was a happy person, he replied, "It's hard to say. I don't think Garbo herself knows the answer. She has paid a very high price for the life she leads." Sorensen did not see Garbo again until she visited Sweden with Leopold Stokowski in 1938. While in Stockholm she called Sorensen to ask if he could arrange a private showing of her first feature film, The Saga of Gosta Berling. "It was the move I loved most of all," Garbo told Sorensen. "But when it was over," Sorensen recalled, "Garbo was downcast and sad. She insisted on taking the elevator alone down to the street. I never saw her again after that." Wilhelm Sorensen suffered from ill-health during the last years of his life, and died in his early sixties. Like others of Garbo's closest friends---before and after him---Sorensen was a homosexual. Garbo's last words to Cecil Beaton, "You see how difficult and neurotic I am. I am impossible to get on with.' I saw before me a child, its face filled with grief and sorrow." Beaton wrote about Garbo in harsh terms: "She is not interested in anything or anybody in particular. And she has become as difficult as an invalid and as selfish, quite unprepared to put herself out for anyone. She would be a trying companion, continuously sighing and full of tragic regrets. She is superstitious, suspicious, and does not know the meaning of friendship. She is incapable of love." Max Gumpel's daughter Laila once visited Garbo and received this advice: "Laila, promise me that you will never let money or glory rule your life. Get married and have a home and family ----or you will be unhappy as I am." Garbo wrote to Saxon, "I cannot see myself as a wife---ugly word," she has not changed her mind. She told me, "Not getting married was probably a mistake, but I always got scared at the last moment and ran off. At the back of my mind something always told me I would not make a good wife." "I am forever running away from something or somebody," Garbo told her friend in the summer of 1977. "Subconsciously I have always known that I was not destined for real and lasting happiness." From her recurring remarks in our time together, the pattern of Garbo's concept of a "happy life" emerged: a little house somewhere in the country with a fireplace "for sitting around and dreaming," simple food, and a good friend by her side who wouldn't talk too much or question her thoughts. She longs to be understood without words and free to do as she pleases without the need for excuses or explanations.  The Garbo I met still recoils at the sight of strangers, and by her own admission the world's most famous living legend is leading a lonely and unhappy life. When I asked her if she was happy to be back in Europe, she said, "Happiness, what is that? I have never known it." She arouses pity and sympathy easily and reveals a distinct craving for affection. She liked to keep her feelings to herself: "Your joys and sorrows ---you never can tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside, when you tell them."
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Post by kjgfordadrgg on Oct 8, 2004 15:17:48 GMT -5
:D Hellooooooo, what's an imagine if She's very happy? I think or believe if she's very happy mood when her father, her sister and Stiller are alive and healthy while she was a star and famous....she will help her father and sister for finanical money to support their needs....also if Stiller is alive so she will leave Hollywood after end of her contract and moving back to Sweden for making German films together....that might make her very, very happy and healthy....she will be very different!!!! Imagine!!! ;) [glow=red,2,300]TEXT[/glow] TEXTTEXTGG very "WISE," she took care of her life, her love, her family. And YES, she has DIRECT decendents. GG was happy, not every person on earth needed to know that. Perhaps still don't need to know. She spent her life learning, and loving, in her own way. Study a few of the books GG has and perhaps you will see the world through different eyes...could be good, could be bad...depends on the interpretation. Knowledge is power. Did you know GG contributed to various schools/learning centers, around the globe? She did so quietly, effectively, never expecting anything in return...just to make the world a better place for OUR children! GG never expected praise for all she has done for this country, however, I thank her every day for what freedom I have. Because of her careful planning, and concern for her fellow "man" my life is good. Let other folks live in that gray area, I prefer the black, and the white, and every LOUD, OBNOXIOUS, color in between. If you cannot be strong like bull or fierce like grizzly bear, what is the point of your life? |
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Post by JOHN on Oct 9, 2004 1:21:45 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]TEXT[/glow] TEXTTEXTGG very "WISE," she took care of her life, her love, her family. And YES, she has DIRECT decendents. GG was happy, not every person on earth needed to know that. Perhaps still don't need to know. She spent her life learning, and loving, in her own way. Study a few of the books GG has and perhaps you will see the world through different eyes...could be good, could be bad...depends on the interpretation. Knowledge is power. [glow=red,2,300]reading books?? yes but the right ones!!! about GG beeing WISE..i think GG had a natural wiseness but most of all good advisor and she was wise enough to follow their advises[/glow] Did you know GG contributed to various schools/learning centers, around the globe? She did so quietly, effectively, never expecting anything in return...just to make the world a better place for OUR children! [glow=red,2,300]Yes thats something many still don´t give her credit for.GG lived with the rule : DO SOMETHING GOOD BUT DON`T TALK ABOUT IT! Did you know that GG was always ashamed about her debt formation lackin? thats why she didn´t ad something when she was a guest somehwere during a dinner! i think that must have been hard for her.she felt like a nothing...poor woman.. [/glow] GG never expected praise for all she has done for this country, however, I thank her every day for what freedom I have. Because of her careful planning, and concern for her fellow "man" my life is good. Let other folks live in that gray area, I prefer the black, and the white, and every LOUD, OBNOXIOUS, color in between. If you cannot be strong like bull or fierce like grizzly bear, what is the point of your life? [glow=red,2,300] honestly , i like waht you wrote but ..i don´t know what you wanted to say with this! lol....please explain again[/glow] |
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Post by udono on Oct 9, 2004 2:10:41 GMT -5
Bored idle ramblings...all speculation anyways...she not here to shake things up eh?
ciao
---udono ;D
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Garbo was "the gloomiest Scandinavian since Hamlet," said critic Alastair Forbes, and the gloom hardly lessened with age."
"and it's too late to change that. These walks are just an escape. When I walk alone, I think about my life and the past....I am not satisfied with the way I made my life." 
Hello...I read a book "Divine Garbo" by Frederick Sands/Sven Broman...about her unhappy life! "When Sven Broman asked Sorensen whether he thought Garbo was a happy person, he replied, "It's hard to say. I don't think Garbo herself knows the answer. She has paid a very high price for the life she leads."
