Garbo Talks Page #6

I bet you've been told

thousands of times already.

I loved you from the

first time I saw you.

We lived on Eastern

Parkway, it's in Brooklyn.

My dad gave me 10 cents

to go to the cinema

with Wanda Sternhagen, my friend.

My father was not rich.

10 cents, it was a lot

of money for him.

He had six mouths to feed.

We saw "Flesh and the Devil".

You were Felicitas von

Kletzingk, remember?

Which name. I never forgot it.

I still have it in my head.

In general, the names of the

films do not stay in mind.

I was at the balcony of Loew's Pitkin,

with Wanda Sternhagen in Brooklyn

and I was Estelle Garbo,

eating a corned beef sandwich

in a brown paper bag and

Wanda saying "hush"

because the brown

paper bag made noise.

It's easy to be Estelle Garbo

when you are on the balcony of

Loew's Pitkin in the darkness.

Nobody saw my double

chin and my big chest.

Not like the vphers. Fine.

I would not have had to eat a

corned beef sandwich anyway.

I was a fat child.

I had to lose weight,

but show me a fine grocery,

especially corned beef,

and I ate you in the hand.

Every time you moved, I sighed.

You walked from one end

of the room to the other,

it was as if your feet

never touched the ground.

Wanda and I saw all your movies.

She thought I loved you

because of my big feet.

That is true. I was doing 39.

I was only going to be 12 years old.

Wanda moved.

Her father had a job in Trenton.

Before leaving, I took her

to lunch and to the cinema.

We went to see "Wild Orchids"

who stood out.

We saw it four times... we did

not know how to say goodbye.

I wrote you a letter once.

I have never written

to another movie star.

I did not get an answer.

It does not matter...

I did not take it personally.

You will not believe

it, but it's true.

I married my husband in 1953.

It was a small wedding. At home.

My mother cooked for a week.

My aunt too.

Everyone has come.

Later, Walter and I took the

train to Atlantic City.

It was our honeymoon.

Some honeymoon.

Two nights.

I did not foresee things...

The rules...

So we were there in Atlantic City,

and I could not do anything.

I was a virgin.

Walter was a virgin.

We had to stay a little longer.

We had nothing to do.

So, I bought a newspaper.

We passed "Anna Christie".

It was the only one of your

movies that I had not seen.

Garbo is talking.

Give me a whiskey.

Ginger ale on the side.

And do not be stingy, baby.

We had Gilbert.

His name comes from John Gilbert.

On returning, after childbirth,

I was so tired that I

could barely move.

I could barely open my eyes.

The television was on.

They passed "Camille", and

I did not stop looking

those heavy skirts that you wore

come and go, then come and go...

Walter and I divorced.

The world is a crazy

place to live, right?

He thought I was eccentric.

Returning from the lawyer's

office, I cried all day.

I walked around the house all day.

I can not sit down to rest.

I took three baths.

I do not know...

You love someone, you have

a child, and it's over.

Why? I do not know.

It's crazy.

I turned on the television.

They were passing

"Queen Christina".

This close up of you in the end,

I thought it would never finish.

It lasted an infinite time...

God, how I tested you.

I really dislocated myself.

I thought that if I

looked like you,

if I had that face,

if I had those eyes,

I would not be so alone.

And your arms,

these long thin arms,

making arabesques

and which seemed

of endless length.

I would have been jealous

of any beauty that day.

Luckily, they passed

"Queen Christina".

Are you interested in basketball?

The Knicks are out of the series.

It bugs me a little.

The world is full of

small injustices.

They disturb you or not.

Me, they disturb me.

A few years ago, I saw a

picture of you in a magazine.

You were in Paris.

You were walking in a

park with a black hat.

I bet you have a million hats.

I was in Paris. Two times.

You have nothing on me there.

Of course, you were

with Aristotle Onassis.

And I was with the B'nai B'rith ride.

Gilbert...

My god, Gilbert!

Do you know what she told me?

That her father was

very poor, like mine.

He worked in a factory in Sweden.

He made auto parts.

And she likes deli meats,

but she prefers cold

chicken to corned beef.

And what else?

She detested biology...

And, God, how I

disliked biology.

And I do not remember

everything she told me.

We had a good conversation, Gilbert.

She told me she was

born in September.

I was born in

September, do you know?

And she told me that her

living room is red.

His salon is red, Gilbert.

And what else? What else?

Her living room is red

and she hates war.

It does not deny anything as

much as war and violence.

In any case, she said that

we were very similar.

Except for the feet. You know she

does not have big feet at all.

She wears 38.5.

She showed them to me.

She knows everything about me.

- I am very busy, Gilbert.

- I must speak to you, Mr. Plotkin.

Later, Gilbert.

I have to talk to you now.

Shepard, I'm leaving.

I do not say that

because I am upset.

But yes, I am upset.

Of course, I am vexed.

I am very upset.

You took my office

to give me a small

piece of criticism.

It's not your fault.

It can happen.

The luminaire buzzes.

There is a low buzz all day long.

You know it.

You did not repair it, I asked

for it many times. It's OK.

You reduced the staff,

and you gave me work

for three people.

And if I did not finish,

I had this speech on

my time to complete.

Do not worry.

This is not your problem.

I sat there and I listened.

Is not it?

You have deducted a half-day

salary for my delay.

No problem. It can happen.

You made me come at 6

o'clock in the morning.

There was nothing to do

at 6 am and I thought:

"Plotkin has fun doing me a."

But then I said to myself,

"No, the rules are the rules.

"He's only doing his job."

"Its good.

A man must do his job."

You have been great. Really.

I wish you good luck.

I'm not angry.

I do not have any resentment.

You have been great.

But we are who we are.

I am who I am.

You are who you are.

So, f*** you, Shepard.

I had the role.

- Yeah? Gnial.

- Yeah.

They did not stop calling me back.

I thought they would

never decide.

I resign.

Do you disavow, too?

Yes. I can do better.

I think I can do a lot better.

What are you looking for?

I do not know.

Sky is the limit...

I would like you to

come to the first one.

Of course.

We will talk about my

Rosalind for years.

I'm going to be the best

Rosalind we've ever seen.

You already are.

You are not part of my world.

My career consumes me.

There is no time for

a relationship.

- Do you understand?

- Of course. - Good.

Maybe I deprive myself, but

playing is such a sacrifice...

Every day I give

something for my art.

You are "simpatico."

I like it a lot.

I am reputed for my "simpatico".

I do not know what's with

you, but you make me laugh.

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