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A biographer explores Greta Garbo’s glamour and vacuity
“Maybe she wasn’t really very interesting,” concludes Robert Gottlieb
Garbo. By Robert Gottlieb. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 448 pages; $40. To be released in Britain in January; £32
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Two faces of a star”
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