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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Author
Illustrations
Dedication
Title Page
1. Friends and Lovers
Hollywood 1932: ‘. . . so much going on in our set here.’
Mercedes: ‘Who of us is only one sex?’
Mercedes: ‘A slender body, hands soft and white.’
Eva Le Gallienne
Garbo and Mercedes: ‘I bought it for you in Berlin.’
Garbo and Cecil: ‘I would do such things to you.’
2. Cecil
Getting on in Society
‘My friendships with men are much more wonderful than with women.’
‘In the presence of this mystery.’
3. Marlene: ‘We make love with anyone we find attractive.’
4. Stokowski, Ona Munson, Georges Schlee and Valentina
5. Cecil and Garbo: ‘My bed is very small and chaste.’
6. Garbo and Cecil: The Affair
7. The Broadchalke Letters
8. Mercedes and Poppy Kirk
9. Darling Sir: ‘I wish you would let me save you.’
10. ‘Shall I hang up my hat with Mr. Beaton?’
11. ‘The goddess has gone.’
12. ‘She leaves – she doesn’t leave.’
13. Drugs and Diet Doctors
14. Resentment and Regrets
15. After Schlee
16. Mercedes: ‘I’m sitting here all alone.’
17. Cecil Sells His Story
18. Garbo: ‘I must be home before seven.’
Picture Section
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Copyright
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