Remembering the divine  Greta Garbo  on her birthday  (18 September 1905 - 15 April 1990)

“She lowers her head to look calculating or flutters her lips. Her face darkens with a slight tightening around the eyes and mouth; she registers a passing idea with a contraction of her brows or a drooping of her lids. Worlds turned on her movements.“  - David Denby

Greta Garbo for As You Desire Me, 1932

Greta Garbo in a 1934 photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, publicity for The Painted Veil

Greta Garbo in a publicity still for Inspiration, ca. 1931.