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Garbo Quote by Mary Astor

“I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.” quote by Mary Astor — Download Open image

““I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.””

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I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

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What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

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She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

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Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.

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