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I have grown up in a great man’s shadow. All my life, I’ve been a symbol. A symbol is eternal, changeless… an abstraction. A human being is mortal and changeable, with desires and impulses, hopes and despairs. I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to be a human being! This longing I cannot suppress.
Queen Christina, 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian.
My boy, when the devil cannot reach us through the spirit… he creates a woman beautiful enough to reach us through the flesh
The Flesh and the Devil (1926) is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. Like, it epitomizes old hollywood glamour and romance and dramatics. Greta GarboxJohn Gilbert was such a combination
Flesh and the Devil, 1926
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, Love, 1927
Greta & John
John Gilbert & Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in a set of promo images for Queen Christina (1933)
Greta Garbo & John Gilbert
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs, 1929
Greta Garbo & John Gilbert, A Woman of Affairs (1928).
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, 1926
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
"I tried to stay away…I fought…I prayed…I lied to myself…But in the end, I had to see you."
Greta Garbo & John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Love (1927)
