(jeanine basinger) marlene dietrich, greta garbo, they're like some kind of ... other.sier to scream without a straw in your mouth. (music playing) (jeanine basinger) it's a romantic kind of woman, that isn't one we connect to as easily as we do crawford wanting something for herself, and who's very realistic and down-to-earth. you don't own me -- nobody does. my life belongs to me. and you'll make one fine mess of it. it'll still belong to me. marian, you frighten me when you talk like that. if i were a man it wouldn't frighten you, you'd think it was right to go out and get anything. use anything i had to get it. why should men be so different? all they've got is their brains they're not afraid to use them. neither am i. the key to the star image is that it is only an image, and yet we know there is a real person and that knowledge that we have that there is a real person makes us believe in the image. you see, pictures have given me all the education i ever had, since i never went beyond the fifth grade. no formal education whatsoever. i used to have to read scripts

. >> greta garbo, marilyn monroe, elizabeth taylor -- all of the greats are represented in this collection200,000 pieces. >> ...that their heirs take to the bank. >> any further advance beyond $17,500? >> talk about a girl's best friend. >> i'm channeling marilyn right now. >> they look really good. >> they're fabulous. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

not long after, edith retires and spends her days watching greta garbo videos and listening to big bandswhitewood cottage stands apart -- her oasis amid urban blight. by the '90s, homeless -- living in parked cars -- provide an edgy backdrop for the grunge-rock scene. but all the while, developers are slowly gobbling up edith's neighborhood, says real-estate broker paul thomas. >> each time a parcel came up on the market, they'd just quietly acquire it and let it sit in an llc, and they assembled the whole entire block, except for her house. >> it's in early 2006 when edith gets the knock at her door. it's a representative of kg investment management, which wants to put up a shopping mall. the developer makes a proposal they think the 84-year-old can't refuse -- $750,000! what do you think the house was worth? >> $150,000. [ chuckles ] it wasn't worth very much. >> edith could buy five whitewood cottages. even so, she does refuse the offer. and the bulldozers roll around her. >> i have a picture when they tore everything down in the whole block and it was just her house in the middle of