Not beautiful
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TheMysteriousLady — 13 years ago(September 23, 2012 12:19 AM)
Also check out this picture of Garbo.
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Garbo, Greta/Annex/Annex - Gar bo,%20Greta%20%28Kiss,%20The%29_04.jpg
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generalusgrant — 13 years ago(December 19, 2012 10:13 AM)
She was gorgeous, far more beautiful than other great "beauties" of that era like Joan Crawford, Dietrich or Jean Harlow.
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Qwithaq — 13 years ago(November 15, 2012 02:01 AM)
I agree that Garbo was pretty plain looking. I don't think she was beautiful at all. There are moments (like the pic of her on IMDb with the Fedora on, and there is something about her eyes) when she looks pretty but never beautiful. I think she was a decent actress but I feel like most people exaggerate her acting talents as well as her looks. I just don't get it: I don't really see anything all that extraordinary about her. I guess she just isn't really my cup of tea.
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joyce-miller777 — 13 years ago(January 05, 2013 06:30 AM)
Have you ever watched her in silent movies when she was in her early 20s? She was gorgeous, even by today's standards. Her face changed and became more hard looking in the 30s. She was still pretty, but IMO, she was no longer gorgeous.
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FranLovesBetteD — 13 years ago(January 05, 2013 07:51 AM)
I agree that her face was absolutely breathtaking in her silents. I think she was still gorgeous in the '30s, although -at least for me- her looks in period movies wasn't much becoming. Then again, her face in that famous screen test from 1949 is mesmerizing.
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JaneThree — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 06:36 PM)
Joyce Miller, that's helpful. I believe it then. In the 1930s, she does nothing for me. She obviously is photogenic. She has bone structure, big eyes. But her other features - nose and mouth, aren't anything, IMO. But I'm going by the 1930s Garbo.
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soleil_9992000 — 12 years ago(April 08, 2013 12:08 PM)
She had a stately kind of beauty and an understated sexuality. Her appeal is not immediately obvious to some people. I found her magical on screen in her ability to convey emotion with her face and eyes. She had mystery. I can appreciate different types of beauty. Her bone structure had a cool formality and dignity that doesn't translate into prettiness or cuteness. She didn't look sweet or obviously sexy. It took me awhile to appreciate her, but one day I saw her in Anna Karenina and then Camille and could understand why people were mesmerized by her. Part of her appeal comes from her demeanor, her "aura" if you will, but it's a unique combination of qualities that makes her special.
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MyMovieTVRomance — 12 years ago(August 25, 2013 02:54 PM)
I think she's probably the most seductive actress who ever lived! I am sooo taken by hershe seduces me, and I start to feel like a wild kitten with a craving for affectionHER affection!
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Ethereal-Cloud — 12 years ago(November 18, 2013 10:59 AM)
Greta Garbo was certainly a gorgeous woman, even if she was 'uglied-up' for a scene, she still looked hot.
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tallulahdurand — 12 years ago(November 29, 2013 10:40 AM)
She was strange IMO, like in the 1920's when she first made Hollywood films, she was stunning. I'd say after she made Anna Christie her looks went down hill, like in Camille her face is very harsh looking. In Ninotchka she looked at her worst. By the time she made her last film her face was maturing and her beauty was starting to shine through again. The screen test she did was also beautiful. Very strange the way her looks came and went. She was never a natural beauty though, despite what people say, before she was in films she was just a normal looking girl, a tad plain in fact.
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metalman091 — 12 years ago(December 12, 2013 02:37 AM)
I think Garbo was at her most beautiful when she made her first Hollywood film [and the film that made her a star] THE TORRENT [1926]. She was breathtaking and so charismatic. Of course her beauty never left her, but those who doubt should have a view of this.
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Naberrie218 — 12 years ago(December 12, 2013 01:31 PM)
I think she was very beautiful and classy and also very mysterious. Austrian pop star Falco was so enamored by her that he wrote a song about her, which came out just a few years before she died. She was apparently his ideal woman.