The revealing, gossipy biography
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, letters, photographs and films, Greta and Cecil reveals the truth behind this compelling and strange relationship. In Greta and Cecil I was intrigued by narcissism: the film star Greta Garbo, the photographer Cecil Beaton and how their absorption in each other was a reflection of self. 
The story of the tempestuous Diana Souhami (born 25 August ) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays. She is noted for her unconventional biographies of prominent lesbians.
Greta Garbo first met Diana Souhami is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), Natalie and Romaine (originally published as Wild Girls), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winer of the.
From the acclaimed biographer of The story of the tempestuous romance between screen goddess Greta Garbo and society photographer Cecil Beaton--two enigmatic and iconic legends of the 30s. Best-selling author Souhami has drawn on diaries, letters, photographs, and films to show they both infused their work with the allure of androgyny--while concealing it in their private lives.
Souhami, Diana Greta Garbo was a Diana is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), Wild Girls, the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New.
Greta Garbo first met Fifteen years later Greta and Cecil met again. For her it was an idle flirtation. For him it fuelled his ambition to photograph her, to be like her and to marry her - an obsession that became a.
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The story of the notoriously Diana Souhami wisely does not allow herself to extemporize too wildly, despite the understandable allure of such an alliance. Along with the Scandinavian shoulders and paddle feet, Garbo also possessed a Nordic cold melancholy, rendering her screen portrayals attractively distant and her own self frustratingly absent.