Greta garbo life story
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Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, Garbo grew up in a rundown Stockholm district, the daughter of an itinerant laborer. She was 14 when her father died, leaving the family destitute. In school, Garbo did little to distinguish herself, and she was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store. Few who knew Swedish actress Greta Garbo in her formative years would have predicted the illustrious career that awaited her.
As a youth she photographed beautifully, but she had no film aspirations until she appeared in an advertising short at that same department store while she was still a teenager. Her first film, a publicity short financed by her employers, was titled How Not to Dress. Garbo followed this first movie appearance with Our Daily Bread, a one-reel commercial for a local bakery.
Then she played a bathing beauty in a two-reel comedy, Luffar Peter (Peter the Tramp). Billed under her own last name
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Fame is so powerful that renouncing it can seem like the supreme power move. Celebrities who retreat from the public eye (Howard Hughes, J. D. Salinger, Prince) will always be legends, no matter what else they may be. Rumored återkomster tantalize. Paparazzi circle. The mystery deepens. In , 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 more, never made another film. For a star who, more than any other, “invaded the subconscious of the audience,” as Robert Gottlieb writes in his new biography, “Garbo” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), this was an abdication, a privilege of monarkisk proportions. But it was also a decision made by one particular, peculiar person who had never been temperamentally suited to celebrity in the first place. There was a reason, beyond the exertions of the Hollywood publicity machine, that a single line she uttered in one movie—“I want to be alone”—became so fu
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Greta Garbo
Swedish-American actress (–)
Greta Garbo[a] (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson;[b] 18 September – 15 April ) was a Swedish-American[1] actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras.
Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic and somber screen persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In , the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in She stirred interest with her first American silent film, Torrent (). Garbo's performance in Flesh and the Devil (), her third movie in the United States, made her an int