Greta Garbo photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, early 1930s

Greta Garbo

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1949.

Joan Crawford

Catherine Hessling as Nana (Jean Renoir, 1926)

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert embracing in a scene from Love — 1927

Greta Garbo, 1927

Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby.

- Greta Garbo’s first line in her first talkie, Anna Christie (1930).

Marilyn

Ava Gardner

Greta Garbo photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull

Ava Gardner

Joan Crawford, 1930s

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie