Handwriting

Graphologist Harry Teitscher commented on Garbo‘s handwriting in 1937 in Neues Wienerjournal: “What one notices, above all, in Greta Garbo‘s handwriting is the marked regularity. She writes her name with simple and emphatic letters. There is an obvious parallell between the regularity of her handwriting and her facial traits. The strong tie between the different letters show that Garbo thinks logically, is clear in her deliberations and calm about her decisions. Her simple manner of writing corresponds to her simple way of life, e. g. the manner in which she dresses in her private life. Her style is natural. It also reveals a powerful system of nerves, lots of energy and endurance and, to be a woman, very strong will-power. She abstains from cheap effects and can be hard as nails when it comes to true and inner values.“

“... But 1 suppose the day will come. Well, when you sell yourself for dollars this is what happens to you. If they would only come sooner, the bastards“. From a letter to book publisher Lars Saxon with whom Garbo corresponded.

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