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Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932) directed by Edmund Goulding.

"In early 1932, Garbo played a fading ballerina in an episode of Grand Hotel. It was the first Hollywood film with several stars in the same movie, each with a dif­ferent story, all staying at Berlin’s Grand Hotel. It launched a popular film genre—the all-star movie. Garbo is surprisingly persuasive as the ballerina. She wears a tutu, although she doesn’t dance en pointe, and her love scenes with the aging John Barrymore are campy. But she pronounced her famous line “I want to be alone” in the film. Producers often had stars refer to their off-screen lives in their films to promote interest in them as personalities, encouraging audience members to identify with their favorite stars, whose lives were detailed in the movie fan magazines." (Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo)

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Sylvia Plath

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The Misfits (1961) dir. John Huston

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— roach-works

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ida (2013) dir. pawel pawlikowski

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Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka

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deer girl collage

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Monday Morning

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Kitten Sleeping in the Arms of Madame Ingres

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Al di là delle nuvole

Michelangelo Antonioni & Wim Wenders 1995

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) dir. by Alexandra Dean

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"How many scars did you justify because you loved the person who was holding the knife?"