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Greta Garbo. Actress: Ninotchka. Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute.
Paparazzi circle. The mystery deepens. In 1941, at the age of thirty-six, Greta Garbo, one of the biggest box-office draws in the world, stopped acting and, though she lived for half a century ...
Swedish actress Greta Garbo is best known for her career in both silent and talking films before World War II. Updated: Sep 12, 2022 Bettmann / Contributor (1905-1990) Who Was Greta Garbo?...
Greta Garbo was dubbed "the Swedish Sphinx" due to her enigmatic personality. Although Garbo was an international movie star, she shied away from the press, her fans, and Hollywood events. The...
Greta Garbo: The Star Who Upheld Her Image as Hollywood’s Most Mysterious Figure for Six Decades By Tim Gray Courtesy Everett Collection On Nov. 27, 1929, three years after Greta Garbo ’s...
The enigma and allure of Greta Garbo (1905–1990) was something she understood completely: “I am only an image, and that is all I can be to you.” The aura of Garbo’s star quality still radiates: “glamorous,” “mysterious,” “aloof,” and “enchanting” were words commonly used to describe her.
Greta Garbo was arguably the quintessential embodiment of Hollywood's Golden Age, a beautiful, glamorous, and above all, mysterious image, carefully cultivated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the sole ...
Biography. Greta Garbo was arguably the quintessential embodiment of Hollywood’s Golden Age, a beautiful, glamorous, and above all, mysterious image, carefully cultivated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the sole studio she would work for during her American film career.
Greta Garbo: The Most Enigmatic Movie Star Robert Gottlieb’s scrupulous study, “Garbo,” suggests that the great star was a sphinx without a secret. Garbo in “The Mysterious Lady” (1928).
Greta Garbo, the “Furious Lesbian,” and a Classic Hollywood Love Triangle In this exclusive excerpt from her new biography of the silent star, author Lois Banner explores the period in the early...