Movie/Entertainment Book Club alternate author tour. Garbo found a substitute family in the home of her closest friend, actress Salka Viertel, and this revealing biography, featuring 180 photographs woven into the narrative, draws on the 50-year Garbo-Viertel correspondence, on firsthand reminiscences and on Garbo's taped conversations with her confidante, New York City art dealer Sam Green, which fills in details of her last decades of self-imposed exile in Manhattan and trips abroad. unique voice is recognizable immediately 21 Emma Hewitt Emma Louise Hewitt is an. Paris' career as a successful journalist serves him well in his role of biographer his talent for in-depth research paired with stylish writing makes for exciting and highly-informative reading, and creates a book that will stand as. Her flame burnt brightly and briefly in Hollywood and in Germany, but a series of bad career decisions and her own boredom with the shallow glitz of the California film industry doomed her to be sidelined and. Like Britney, Paris Hilton is one of the original celebrity vocal fry. Louise Brooks by Barry Paris is the only full-length biography on silent screen legend Louise Brooks to date. The Swedish sphinx moved to Hollywood in 1925 and became ``the sex fantasy of the century,'' an androgynous, exotic persona on whom millions projected their desires, yet, by this account, she was a largely celibate narcissist who longed for an idealized hearth and home. Louise Brooks may today be an iconic figure of the final years of the silent cinema, but for many years she was largely unknown. Recurring traumas of abandonment-the deaths of her father, Karl, a Stockholm landscapist, when she was 14, and of her beautiful actress sister Alva, victim of cancer at age 23-molded Garbo (1905-1990) into a high-strung, hypersensitive recluse pathologically afraid of betrayal, of commitment, of pregnancy, according to Paris. Greta Garbo's melancholy self-obsession, her paradoxical need to perform and withdraw, manifested themselves in her teens, shows Paris (Louise Brooks) in a moving biography that unearths connections between the private woman and the public actress.