Beschreibung:

GRETA GARBO ARCHIVE OF MATERIALS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MERCEDES DE ACOSTA Circa 1930s A unique and extensive archive of mementos relating to Greta Garbo that Mercedes de Acosta saved during the course of their relatioship. Some of the items in this collection are mentioned in her autobiography and include: approximately twenty black and white unpublished snapshots of a topless Garbo with their negatives taken when the two had a tryst in Silverlake, Nevada, a number of negatives showing a nude de Acosta that Garbo took, pressed flowers and a lock of Garbo's light brown hair in an envelope with de Acosta's handwritten notation reading Greta's hair, flowers, rememberances , Garbo's and de Acosta's elaborate astrology charts, a deteriorated leather sandal owned by Garbo, two traced outlines of Garbo's feet, Christmas tags with Garbo's handwritten initials, numerous newspaper clippings, magazine articles and biographies about Garbo, a handwitten notebook filled with poetry that de Acosta wrote for Garbo from 1932 to 1944, the original screenplay de Acosta wrote for MGM (with the hopes that Garbo would star in it) titled "The Life of Jehanne D'Arc," many letters from Acosta's friends such as Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Cecil Beaton and Alice B. Toklas among others and a large group of materials about her accomplished family who were famous in New York society during the early part of the twentieth century.