A live interview with Joan Crawford, April 1973 at a town hall:
JOAN: We got to Grand Hotel, um…I was with a public relations man Jerry Asher whom you remember…
SPRINGER: Sure.
JOAN: And Miss Garbo worked from nine to five. Curfew. And I had to be ready at five to go on. And I was standing outside the dressing room and I said, “Jerry! Stand back! Stand back! Here comes Miss Garbo!” and I said “Hold your breath! Stand back! She doesn’t like to see anybody!” So she came up and she paused and I started to run down and she was below me, I was on the top step and she was two below me…and I didn’t know what to do. So I said “Excuse me, Miss Garbo,” and she took my face in her hands and said, “Oh, I am so sorry we have no scenes togedder. I am so sorry.” And I looked at this face with the sun in the west…on this beautiful face. She was five-thirty at that time and she was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life and I went BLING!
