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A Vary Rare Antique Original Photo Print of Greta Garbo By Clarence Sinclair Bull: Vintage antique original photo, this large black and white photograph print taken in 1931 of Greta Garbo. Came from the original photo negative and it's printed on old paper. 1931 Photo of Movie Star Greta Garbo By Clarence Sinclair Bull. This 1931 photo of Greta Garbo, shows one of the most famous female Hollywood Stars. Channeling 1931 Glamour: The Flapper. Greta garbo in Inspiration, 1931, Photo Clarence Sinclair Bull. This photo was made in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Greta Garbo "Mata Hari" by Clarence Sinclair Bull,1931 Clarence Sinclair Bull, Photographer. As head of MGM's Stills Department from 1924 to 1960, he pioneered celebrity portraiture with his alluring, mysteriously-lit images. Bull was Greta Garbo's favorite photographer and she posed for him almost exclusively for most of her career. His other famous subjects included Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Grace Kelly. He also experimented with early color photography in his stills for "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "Gone With the Wind" (1939). Bull was born in Sun River, Montana. He studied painting with Charles Marion Russell but gravitated to photography in his early 20s. In 1918 he joined Metro Pictures and set up one of the film industry's first in-house portrait studios. Bull published a memoir, "The Faces of Hollywood" (1968). Five of his photographs hang in London's National Portrait Gallery, which held a major retrospective of his work in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo

Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), later known as Greta Garbo, was a Swedish actress primarily remembered for her work in the United States during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its subsequent Golden Age; in total she appeared in 27 movies.

Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, she moved to Los Angeles, California in 1925. She was a popular box-office attraction with John Gilbert. Garbo was one of the few silent movie actresses to successfully negotiate the transition to sound, which she achieved in Anna Christie (1930), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. "Garbo talks", the MGM marketing tagline used for the film, became a catch-phrase during the 1930s. She appeared twice as Anna Karenina, once in silent film, Love (1927), and again with Anna Karenina (1935), for which she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. In 1932 her popularity with audiences allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly choosy about her roles.

She considered her performance as the courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) as her best performance and the role gained her a second Academy Award nomination. Towards the end of her career, MGM attempted to recast the somber and melancholy Garbo into a comic actress with Ninotchka (1939) and Two-Faced Woman (1941), both of which featured her in a comical mode. For Ninotchka, Garbo was again nominated for an Academy Award; Two-Faced Woman did well at the box office, but was a critical failure.

After 1941 she retired to an apartment in New York City and became increasingly reclusive. Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy Award. A 1986 Sidney Lumet film, Garbo Talks, reflected the continuing popular obsession with the star. Until the end of her life, Garbo-watching became a sport among the paparazzi and the media, but she remained elusive. She died in 1990 at the age of 84 from pneumonia and renal failure.