Greta Garbo - a Swedish actress

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Greta Garbo - the divine

Greta Lovisa Gustafsson or more known as - Greta Garbo - was born 18 September 1905 - and died 15 April 1990. She was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age.

Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

In her later years she avoided the cameras and wanted to live her life privetly. Her face was still so beautiful even if she was old now. I remember how much we in Sweden wanted to read about her but there was nobody who could have an interview.

Greta Garbos life is going to be a movie now: GARBO

Collection of movies with Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo - The Signature Collection (Anna Christie / Mata Hari / Grand Hotel / Queen Christina / Anna Karenina / Camille / Ninotchka / Garbo Silents)

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The story of a star

Greta Gustavsson

When Garbo was 14 years old, her father, to whom she was extremely close, died. She was forced to leave school and go to work. Her first job was as a soap-lather girl in a barbershop.

She then became a clerk at the department store PUB in Stockholm, where she would also model for newspaper advertisements. Her first motion picture aspirations came when she appeared in two short film advertisements (the first for the department store where she worked). They were eventually seen by comedy director Erik Arthur Petschler and he gave her a part in his upcoming film Peter the Tramp (1922).

Garbo studied at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. While there, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her in cinema acting technique, gave her the stage name "Greta Garbo", and cast her in a major role in the silent film Gösta Berlings saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling) in 1924, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf

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Another Swedish actress will play GARBO

Anna-Karin Eskilsson

Another Swedish born actress, Anna-Karin Eskilsson. is going to play Greta Garbo in the movie that is now planned. She says that she has been waiting so long for an opportunity like this. She had a part in the Movie "Sex and the City 2008"

Anna-Karin Eskilsson lives in New York since 14 years and she has been an actress since she moved there. The making of the Movie "Garbo" will start next year in Europe and USA.

Anna-Karin Eskilsson got a mail from the dirctor Buddy Bregman telling that he was looking for the "right" Garbo for four years I answered "good luck" finding the one.
Anna-Karin soon got a new mail, a little more clear from the same director. She flew to LA for an audition.

- It went on for five hours! We went through the whole script and I was cross-eyed when I left. Seven o´clock the next morning the hotel called and the director was on the phone. He just said: YOU ARE GARBO"

Movies with Greta Garbo

English list

Europa
Luffar-Peter (Peter the Tramp), Sweden, 1922
The Saga of Gosta Berling, Sweden, 1924
The Joyless Street, Germany, 1925

USA, MGM
Torrent, 1926
The Temptress, 1926
Flesh and the Devil, 1927
Love, 1927
The Divine Woman, 1928
The Mysterious Lady, 1928
A Woman of Affairs, 1928
Wild Orchids, 1929
The Single Standard, 1929
The Kiss, 1929
Anna Christie, 1930
Romance, 1930
Anna Christie (German Language), 1930
Inspiration, 1931
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, 1931
Mata Hari, 1931
Grand Hotel, 1932
As You Desire Me, 1932
Queen Christina, 1933
The Painted Veil, 1934
Anna Karenina, 1935
Camille, 1936
Conquest, 1937
Ninotchka, 1939
Two Faced Woman, 1941

Emigrant Greta in US

She and Stiller were brought to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Louis B. Mayer when Gösta Berlings Saga caught his attention. Unfortunately, her relationship with Stiller came to an end as her fame grew and he struggled in the studio system. He was fired by MGM and returned to Sweden in 1928, where he died soon after.Garbo's sister Alva died of cancer in 1926 at the age of 23 after appearing in one feature film in Sweden, adding to the melancholy Garbo felt at being in Hollywood. MGM refused to allow Garbo to return to Sweden for her sister's funeral, and Garbo was only able to return to Sweden for a visit in 1928.

The most important of Garbo's silent movies were The Temptress (1926), Flesh and the Devil (1926), and Love (1927). She starred in the latter two with the popular leading man John Gilbert. Her name was linked with his in a much publicized romance, and she was said to have left him standing at the altar in 1926, when she changed her mind about getting married.

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina (1935)

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A glimps of a star

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Queen Christina

Arguably Greta Garbo's best MGM movie--depending how you feel about Camille and Ninotchka--this tale of the 17th-century Swedish monarch who preferred men's togs to gowns plays the most provocative games with the great star's ambisexual personality.

Queen Christina

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To escape the burdens of rule, Sweden's Queen Christina rides into the countryside disguised as a boy. There she meets and secretly falls for a dashing Spanish envoy on his way to the royal court..... now you have to see the rest =)

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Greta Garbo - we still talk about her
Rookie faces probe over mauling
By Kevin A. Lagunda POLICE Regional Office (PRO) 7 Director Marcelo Garbo Jr. ordered an investigation on a policeman who allegedly mauled a fast-food chain crew in Minglanilla last week. PO1 Binerando Bacalso, a member of the Mabolo Police Station, ...
Acting fraternity turns out in force to mourn 'gentleman of our profession'
A man who loved to work but turned down more parts than Greta Garbo, and, finally, a frail, gentle soul who could kill at 20 metres with his biting wit.? Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, drew laughter and applause for a eulogy studded with ...
Raquel Welch: 'I Think Mae West Was A Man'
... a thrill to work with West - but she took away a very bad memory from their time together: "I had this beautiful dress and it was black with a big white ruffle around the neck and a black velvet hat, based on a costume that was worn by Greta Garbo.
Stars of Hollywood and golf align at Riviera
Greta Garbo used to walk the course, sneaking out from her house on a ridge overlooking the 13th hole. Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Brentwood, about a couple of long-irons from the Pacific Ocean, the Riviera Country Club ...

Ninotchka

Ninotchka was a successful attempt at lightening Garbo's image and making her less exotic, by the insertion of a scene in a restaurant in which her character breaks into uninhibited laughter which subsequently provided the film with its famous tagline, "Garbo laughs!". The follow-up film, Two-Faced Woman (1941), attempted to capitalize by casting Garbo in a romantic comedy, where she played a double role that featured her dancing, and tried to make her into "an ordinary girl". The film, directed by George Cukor, was a critical (though not a commercial) failure. It was Garbo's last official screen appearance.

It is often reported that Garbo chose to retire from cinema after this film's failure, but already by 1935 she was becoming more choosy about her roles, and eventually years passed without her agreeing to do another film. By her own admission, Garbo felt that after World War II the world changed, perhaps forever.

In 1941, MGM costume-designer Adrian also left the studio, later saying:

"It was because of Garbo that I left MGM. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."

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Ninotchka

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News about Garbo

Acting fraternity turns out in force to mourn 'gentleman of our profession'
A man who loved to work but turned down more parts than Greta Garbo, and, finally, a frail, gentle soul who could kill at 20 metres with his biting wit.? Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, drew laughter and applause for a eulogy studded with ...
Raquel Welch: 'I Think Mae West Was A Man'
... a thrill to work with West - but she took away a very bad memory from their time together: "I had this beautiful dress and it was black with a big white ruffle around the neck and a black velvet hat, based on a costume that was worn by Greta Garbo.
Stars of Hollywood and golf align at Riviera
Greta Garbo used to walk the course, sneaking out from her house on a ridge overlooking the 13th hole. Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Brentwood, about a couple of long-irons from the Pacific Ocean, the Riviera Country Club ...
Spare Times for Feb. 17-23
... and features a collection of his celebrity portraits ? intimate black-and-white photographs that often incorporate mirrors and reflective surfaces ? that capture glamorous subjects like Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and his old flame Greta Garbo.

Link in Swedish

Greta Garbo Saga
I am sorry but this link is the best of them all. It is the story of Greta Garbo written by people who loved her. It is in Swedish and I have taken many of my pictures from this site.
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She shunned publicity

Garbo was considered one of the most glamorous movie stars of the 1920s and 1930s. She was also famous for shunning publicity, which became part of her mystique. Except at the very beginning of her career, she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres, and answered no fan mail.

In 1953, she bought a seven-room apartment in New York City at 450 East 52nd Street, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Garbo lived the last years of her life in absolute seclusion. She had invested very wisely, particularly in commercial property along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, was known for extreme frugality, and was very wealthy.

She died in New York Hospital on 15 April 1990, aged 84, as a result of pneumonia and renal failure, which had shut down her stomach and kidneys. She had previously been operated on and treated for breast cancer, which required a partial mastectomy, from which she recovered.[citation needed]

She was cremated and her ashes were finally interred after a long legal battle at the Skogskyrkogården Cemetery in her native Stockholm.

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Greta Garbo was indeed a great star! there was a fight about her ashes. Hollywood legend Greta Garbo, the divine, was 84 years. She died April 15, 1990 but has still not been able to get the final resting place. Her dust is several years in an urn at a funeral in New York. Half the world has been to take her to the tomb itself. Niece Gray Reis Field has not been able to decide. She was afraid that someone would desecrate the tomb and steal the urn, which hit Charlie Chaplin. But Stockholm finansborgarråd Mats Hulth, who will host the Reis Fields visits this summer, says that it is possible to arrange for security guarantees. . . . But it must not become a wrestling match. It is up to the next of kin to determine where she should be buried. Governor Ulf Adelsohn has previously advocated Hedvig Eleonora. - Now it's completely not care for me. But I think she should be buried in Stockholm, "he says. Adelsohn has previously been given the green light from Grey Reis Field that Greta Garbo would be buried in the Hedvig Eleonora. He wrote letters and reminding Reis Field was two times for lunch with the Consul General in New York. Then it was just quiet. - I think she should be ashamed, she should long ago have been arranged for the funeral, "said Adelsohn." Just want to make money "I just think she wants to make money on this, it is my impression. In an interview in Aftonbladet two years ago, Gray said that Greta Reis Field Mugwort would be buried in Sweden. - My idea was always that my mother would accompany me to Sweden to designate the cemetery. She was a little older than Miss Garbo and they were very close friends. The mother was never well enough to travel.

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