Queen Christina

Dietrich, Garbo et Hepburn : trois stars travesties dans l’Amérique de la Dépression Résumé Dans une Amérique secouée par la Grande Dépression, trois stars hollywoodiennes féminines, Marlène Dietrich, Greta Garbo et Katharine Hepburn ont, chacune à leur manière, malmené l’ordre social en usant...

They share another exquisite evening together. She sensuously eats grapes (from an improbable bowl of fruit - in winter) meltingly in the flickering firelight with him during their passionate, clandestine love affair. They warmed and ripened in the Spanish sun. My hacienda is overrun with them...

They ride through the snowy woods on their horses, with Christina androgynously looking like a lower-class young man (with a page-boy haircut) - so she can be anonymous and unrecognized among her subjects...

Queen Christina (1933) is one of Greta Garbo's quintessential, most-remembered screen portrayals (and one of her finest films), with glowing scenes (enhanced by her favorite cinematographer William Daniels) that reflect the mystique of the lovely, enigmatic actress...