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Greta Garbo

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Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyze this woman's acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera.
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Bette Davis, in The Lonely Life : An Autobiography? (1962), p. 116

 
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