When it turned to the end of war, Marlene Dietrich was guest in Orson Welles house and his wife Rita Hayworth in their house in Los Angeles. Dietrich suggested Welles and succeeded to persuade a meeting with Greta Garbo arranged by him.
According to Welles, Marlene absolutely ''worshiped" Garbo and wanted only to determine, how the Swede looked after several years absence of the movies and to meet the woman who Mercedes de Acosta, Gilbert and Remarque once loved. Her own affair with the Acosta belonged meanwhile also to the past. Anyhow a party in the house of Clifton Webb in Beverly Hills was given. Welles presented the two women each other, and promptly Dietrich swarmed around Garbo and told her how inspiring she was, called Garbo “goettlich” (divine) and an “unsterbliche” (undying) MUSE.
Garbo who hated blandishments exactly the same like gatherings of people, brought only a narrow smile out and a short appreciative remark, with which the maintenance should actually be terminated, but Dietrich let itself not be shaken off and increased her flattering nearly in the intolerable. Now Garbo had to endure and still said some absent-minded thanks. Finally Dietrich withdrew herself exhausted. Later in that evening Dietrich said to Welles: "Her feet are not at all as large, as one always says." But the topic was not yet terminated. With a drink at home MD insisted on the fact that the Garbo, against the rumour, quite put up some make-up:
"She has curved eye lashes. Do you know, how long one needs, to bend around the lashes to get them that way?" Welles did not have notion, but the affair was not further pursued. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo had nevertheless met once again; there is no reference on the fact that they met at another time.