Greta Garbo and the Rise of the Modern Woman. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Greta Garbo and the Rise of the Modern Woman

"Reisfeld knows about Garbo what we would never know. But, fortunately, he tells us." ~ Mick LaSalle, author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. Hollywood Made Her a Star. What she did for women made her a Legend. Greta Garbo dominated European cinema and Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s. With discipline and fearless self-belief, she transformed screen acting into something intimate, modern, and psychologically real. She fought studio control... and won. She challenged censors, defied social expectations, and refused to compromise her independence. More than a movie star, Garbo reshaped what it meant to be a woman on screen-self-possessed, mysterious, and unapologetically autonomous. She redefined the power a woman could hold in Hollywood. In this intimate biography, her grandnephew Scott Reisfield reveals this disciplined artist, strategic thinker, and the fiercely private woman who helped usher a closed culture into the Modern Age. "Scott Reisfield has written a history of his great-aunt, telling the story of both the star and the woman." - Bo Florin, Professor in Cinema Studies, Stockholm University

Scott Reisfield is the grand-nephew of Greta Garbo and wrote the 2005 book Garbo: Portraits from her Private Collection (co-written with Robert Dance). That book was a companion to the museum exhibit of the same name. The American edition sold 12,500 copies. It was also printed in German, French and Swedish. Scott has traveled around the world to research Garbo. He has access to family documents and collections that have not been used prior to this. He had the time to tease out fact from fiction, and there was a lot of fiction. He went back to archives multiple times to pin down answers.Scott has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He has spent forty years in business, thirty of them in senior management, working in companies ranging from large corporations to startups. He also ran marketing for a national association. Today, Scott lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.