gatabella:“It is strange how something that in imagination seems extraordinary can suddenly become
gatabella: “It is strange how something that in imagination seems extraordinary can suddenly become very natural when it really happens. To have Greta in the flesh before me instantly seemed the most natural thing in the world. As we shook hands and she smiled at me I felt that I had known her all my life; in fact, in many previous incarnations.As I had expected she was remarkably beautiful, far more so than she seemed in her films then. She was dressed in a white jumper and dark blue sailor pants. Her feet were bare and like her hands, slender and sensitive. Her beautifully straight hair hung to her shoulders and she wore a white tennis visor pulled well down over her face in an effort to hide her extraordinary eyes which held in them a look of eternity.“ - Mercedes de Acosta on Greta Garbo in her autobio Here Lies the Heart -- source link