Aman Zeenat and Greta Garbo

AMAN ZEENAT ( B.1951)
Actress.Former advertizing model.first major role in Hare Rama Hare Krishna as emancipated "hippie" sister of hero Dev Anand,hearlding the 70s look of the Westernised,3libearted "young woman un Hindi film.
At its best ,this attempt to repsent 'modernity'redefined the love story ( Yaadon Ki Baraat) by violating several moral codes advocated by earlier melodrams to control female sexuality .The image was adopted and negatively inflected , notably by Parveen Babi (the gangster's moll in Deewar,1975) in the context of Amitabh Bachchan 's vigilance themes.
Raj Kapoor later used the image to stigmatise the obscenity of contemporary consumerist versions of religious symbolism in Satyam Shivam Sundaram.







would be fair to say that
Zeenat Aman is probably the sexiest
star of Bollywood. Her voluptuous figure,
angular face and carefree attitude, especially
in Satyam Shivam Sundaram, all
made for a sizzling package.

Having studied in the US during the sexual revolution, Zeenat brought back
with her the power of being in touch with her sexuality. Upon return, she won the title of Miss India and the larger Miss Asia-Pacific
title. Film offers followed and she became
a star with her third film, Hare
Rama Hare Krishna.

Her personal life was a little unsteady.
After a broken marriage to Sanjay Khan,
Zeenat tied the knot with Mazhar Khan
but they separated after a while.

Still acting today, Zeenat's contribution to cinema would be her bold and playful interpretation of female sexuality.
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Major Films

Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971)
Yaadon ki Baarat (1973)
Heera Panna (1973)
Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahin (1977)
Dharamveer (1977)
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)




Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age.
Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances"[1] [1] and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.[2] In addition, it is claimed that the The Guinness Book of World Records named her as "the most beautiful woman who ever lived.(Wikipedia)






Becoming an actress
When Garbo was fourteen years old, her father, with whom she was extremely close, died. She was forced to leave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. Greta states in the book Garbo On Garbo page 33 that her relationship with her mother was not strained.
She then became a clerk at the department store PUB in Stockholm, where she would also model for newspaper advertisements. Her first motion picture aspirations came when she appeared in a group of short film advertisements for the department store where she worked, and they were eventually seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast her in a bit part for his upcoming film Peter The Tramp in 1922, although her motion picture debut was a year earlier in a low-budget film.
From 1922 to 1924, she studied at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. While she was there, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her in cinema acting technique, gave her the stage name "Greta Garbo", and cast her in a major role in the silent film Gösta Berlings Saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling) in 1924, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf. She starred opposite Swedish film actor Lars Hanson and then starred in two more movies in Sweden and one in Germany (Die Freudlose Gasse - The Joyless Street).
She and Stiller were brought to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Louis B. Mayer when Gösta Berlings Saga caught his attention. On viewing the film, Mayer was impressed with Stiller's direction, but was much more taken with Garbo's acting and screen presence. According to Mayer's daughter, Irene, with whom he screened the film, it was look and emotions that emanated from her eyes that would make her a star. Unfortunately, her relationship with Stiller came to an end as her fame grew and he struggled in the studio system. He was fired by MGM and returned to Sweden in 1928, where he died soon after.
Throughout this period, Garbo was slowly emerging as a "Galatea" molded by a series of corporate Pygmalions. In photographs and films one can see her change from a pudgy shopgirl until she turns into the perfect Sphinx, the "face" captured in famous pictures by Edward Steichen and Clarence Bull, and other photographers of the period.











Later career
Ninotchka was a successful attempt at lightening Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in a restaurant which her character breaks into joyful laughter which subsequently provided the film with its famous tagline, "Garbo laughs!"
A follow-up film, Two-Faced Woman (1941), attempted to capitalize by casting Garbo in a romantic comedy, where she would play a double role that also featured her dancing, and tried to make her into "an ordinary girl." The film, directed by George Cukor, was a critical (though not commercial) failure. It was Garbo's last screen appearance.
It is often reported that Garbo chose to retire from cinema after this film's failure, but already by 1935 she was becoming more choosy about her roles, and eventually years passed without her agreeing to do another film. By her own admission, Garbo felt that after World War II the world changed, perhaps forever.
In 1941, MGM costume-designer Adrian also left the studio, later saying:
"It was because of Garbo that I left MGM. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."[citation needed]
In 1949, Garbo filmed several screen tests as she considered reentering the movie business to shoot La Duchess de Langeais directed by Walter Wanger; otherwise never stepped in front of a movie camera again. The plans for this film collapsed when financing failed to materialize, and these tests were lost for 40 years, then resurfaced in someone's garage [4]. They were included in the 2005 TCM documentary Garbo [5] [6], and show her still radiant at age 43 [7]. There were suggestions that she might appear as the "Duchess de Guermantes" in a film adaptation of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time but this never came to fruition. She was offered many roles over the years, but always turned them down.
Her last interview appears to have been with the celebrated entertainment writer Paul Callan of the London Daily Mail during the Cannes Film Festival. Meeting at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Callan began "I wonder . . ", before Garbo cut in with "Why wonder?", and stalked off, making it one of the shortest interviews ever published. The newspaper gave it a double page spread.
She gradually withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in New York City, refusing to make any public appearances. Up until her death, Garbo sightings were considered sport for paparazzo photographers.
Despite these attempts to flee from fame, she was nevertheless voted Best Silent Actress of the Century (her compatriot Ingrid Bergman winning the Best Sound Actress) in 1950, and was also designated as the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guiness Book of World Records.






Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Other notes
1920
Mr and Mrs. Stockholm
unknown
1921
A Happy Knight
Maid
How Not to Dress
Model
uncredited
1922
Peter the Tramp
Greta
A Scarlett Angel
Extra
uncredited
1924
The Story of Gösta Berling
Elizabeth Dohna
1925
The Joyless Street
Greta Rumfort
uncredited
1926
Flesh and the Devil
Felicitas
The Temptress
Elena
The Torrent
Leonora Moreno aka La Brunna
1927
Love
Anna Karenina
1928
A Woman of Affairs
Diana Merrick Furness
The Mysterious Lady
Tania Fedorova
The Divine Woman
Marianne
Only a 9 minute reel steel exists. Source The Mysterious Lady DVD.
1929
The Kiss
Irene Guarry
The Single Standard
Arden Stuart Hewlett
Wild Orchids
Lillie Sterling
1930
Romance
Madame Rita Cavallini
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
Anna Christie
Anna Christie
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1931
Mata Hari
Mata Hari
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Susan Lenox
Anna Christie
Anna Christie
Inspiration
Yvonne Valbret
1932
As You Desire Me
Zara aka Marie
Grand Hotel
Grusinskaya
1933
Queen Christina
Queen Christina
1934
The Painted Veil
Katrin Koerber Fane
1935
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
New York Film Critics Circle Award - Best Actress
1936
Camille
Marguerite Gautier
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1937
Conquest
Countess Marie Walewska
1939
Ninotchka
Nina Ivanovna 'Ninotchka' Yakushova
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1941
Two-Faced Woman
Karin Borg Blake