text: Vui Berihmtheidn vo Fuim und Kuitua hom se iba de Schauspuifehigkeitn vo da Garbo begeistat ausdrickt, beispuisweis Bette Davis: Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyze this womans acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera. Oda Ephraim Katz (The Film Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry): Of all the stars who have ever fired the imaginations of audiences, none has quite projected a magnetism and a mystique equal to Garbos. The Divinethe dream princess of eternity the Sarah Bernhardt of films are only a few of the superlatives writers used in describing her over the years.... She played heroines that were at once sensual and pure, superficial and profound, suffering and hopeful, world-weary and life-inspiring. 