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[dirac]

Thanks for the summing-up, miliosr.  I don't think it would have been impossible or even unlikely for Garbo or even Monroe to have succeeded on stage if there had been no camera to place in front of them (I'd say the same of Taylor although she isn't a cinema phenomenon in the same class with the first two), because born performers will get in front of an audience in almost any era that doesn't ban them outright from performing  but there is no doubt those two had a special relationship in front of the camera that hasn't been matched before or since - truly in a class of their own.