Author: VICKERS, HUGO
Title: Loving Garbo - the Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta
Description: London, Jonathan Cape. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224030728). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First Printing. 276 pages. 33 illustrations. The extraordinary story of Greta Garbo and two of her greatest loves - Merceded de Acosta and Cecil Beaton. Mercedes de Acosta was a notorious figure who hade been brought up as a boy, took a girlfriend on her honeymoon, and claimed 'I can get any woman from any man'. Her conquests included Isadora Duncan, Eva le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. She and Garbo enjoyed a solitary idyll on Silver Lake in the Sierra Nevada before living together in Hollywood. Beaton first met his heroine at a party in in 1932, but it was to be a more than a decade before they became lovers, and despite Garbo's possessive friends and the increasingly sinister Mercedes, dressed in a highwayman's cape and silver-buckled shoes, Garbo and Beaton spent many passionate months together in New York and California. L. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Cecil Beaton, Mercedes de Acosta, Marlene Dietrich, Isadora Duncan, Eva le Gallienne 0224030728


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