![]() ![]() “I am so unexpectedly violent and have such unlicensed energy when called upon. It baffles and intrigues me and even shocks her.” The new book “Garbo” offers an eye-popping look at the reclusive star’s illicit affairs - including with actor John Gilbert. But it was widely known that she bedded the mostly gay fashion photographer Cecil Beaton. Starting in the mid-40s and continuing for three decades, Garbo and Beaton dated intermittently and were seen together at different times in New York and California, London and Paris.īeaton gossiped about his liaisons with Garbo with author Truman Capote, who later said to Hugo Vickers, Beaton’s official biographer: “Curiously enough, Cecil was one of the few people who gave her any physical satisfaction.”īeaton also told Vickers he wasn’t sure how he did it. Then, when he returned home from leave months later and reached out to her, Garbo refused to take his calls.īecause the actress was so private, she never kissed and told. Greta Garbo chose to never marry, but she sure loved to get around. The silver-screen icon went out with men and women, gays and straights, singletons and married people, and she did it all on her own terms.Īfter he enlisted in the military at the start of WWII, the actor Gilbert Roland wrote in his memoirs that Garbo took him to bed to celebrate, even giving him a pair of her panties as a keepsake. Restaurant owner decks robbery suspect who socked old man: ‘I’d happily do it again’įred Savage denies ‘devastating’ new abuse claims after ‘Wonder Years’ firing She catches the London train anyway, and as it pulls away, she turns to look ahead, grinning.Justice served: Hollywood restaurant owner tackles, detains thief who punched elderly diner ![]() "I would rather you were a coward than dead, Little Bear," he says. Ursula's father Hugh walks her home to the train station and begs her to stay in the countryside rather than return to London. Ursula reveals that she and Teddy debated the possibility of living their lives over and over again, fixing their past mistakes.Įach family member discusses whether they would opt for such a scenario before it comes to Ursula's turn – and she simply says that she told Teddy that she thought it was a "wonderful" idea, not quite answering the question. In the final version of Ursula's life we see, it's still wartime, and she's at home with her parents, Aunt Izzie and sister Pamela, where they discuss Ursula's final conversation with Teddy before he died. Sian Clifford in BBC Two's Life After Life BBC/House Productions/Nick Wall #Life after life novel seriesIn the book the series is based on, it's left unclear whether Ursula succeeded in killing Hitler, and it's the same in the series – did Ursula manage to shoot him before bystanders pulled their own guns on her? How did Ursula Todd's story in Life After Life end? The screen cuts to black before she pulls the trigger, but we hear multiple gun shots and screams, before the snowfall motif which signifies Ursula's death. She travels to a German cafe – bumping into the man who was her husband in another life – and points a pistol at Hitler's head. In a later life, Ursula appears to remember what she must do to prevent the war and the death of her brother Teddy, a pilot. By the end of the war, she and her young daughter are starving to death, and she makes the heartbreaking choice for them to both die by suicide. In one version, Ursula falls in love with and marries a German lawyer, who later joins the Nazi party. In the first half of episode 4, we see Ursula and her family suffering during the Second World War across various timelines, both in England and in Germany. Teddy and Ursula dance in Life After Life BBC Two ![]()
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