Beauty in the apertures of pain

Graduation portraits of Clarice Lispector and her sister, Tania *

Greta Garbo, Love, 1927

Greta Garbo, Inspiration, 1931

Greta Garbo, A Woman of Affairs, 1928

Giselle 

World Ballet, 1958

1920 c. Sonia Delaunay wearing her own designs. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

Jean Seberg in Time Out for Love // Les grandes personnes (dir. Jean Valère - 1961).

Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)

Greta Garbo

“Unable to give her the Nobel prize, I wanted to be a bit grand and give Garbo something out of the ordinary — one of the stars in the sky. You can buy one from a Canadian firm that is part of an organization that exists to gather funds for an observatory. 

Garbo was sitting in our hotel room in Klosters. I explained that many of the stars in the sky lack names, but I had arranged for one of them to be known as Greta Garbo from now on. 

‘That’ll have to be the Star of Bethlehem, then,’ Garbo joked. 'I’m afraid that one’s already taken, but I’ve got the certificate here.’ I then produced the special star chart that I documents, etc. 

The star had had sent to me with all the related known as Greta Garbo is a sun one hundred times larger than the sun of our solar system and can be found just next to the pole star - only it’s infinitely further away. 

Garbo folded together all the paraphernalia and then said quietly: ‘Thank you. I promise to continue shining over everything, good as well as bad, in the future as well.’

The Duchess Of Langeais screen-test by Joseph Valentine c. 1949

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, Flesh and the Devil, 1926

Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1925)

Two women lighting each others’ cigarettes, Westeinde, The Netherlands, 1932.

Bette Davis, 1947 by Loomis Dean

Mutuals