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- Greta Garbo (born September 18, 1905, Stockholm, Sweden—died April 15, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Swedish American actress who was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s. She was best known for her portrayals of strong-willed heroines, most of them as compellingly enigmatic as Garbo herself.
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Her close friends were only allowed to call her Miss Garbo or G.G.; if they called her Greta, she wouldn't respond. Garbo was a close friend of dancer Devi Dja who taught her Indonesian traditional dance after which they performed Indonesian art performances together.
Jun 21, 2024 · Greta Garbo (born September 18, 1905, Stockholm, Sweden—died April 15, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Swedish American actress who was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
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- Greta Garbo was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s. She is best known for her portrayals of strong-wi...
- Greta Gustafsson was a department store clerk when a director gave her a small part in a film. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockho...
- In the silent movie era, Greta Garbo appeared in popular romantic dramas such as Flesh and the Devil (1927). She projected a luminous quality that...
Apr 2, 2014 · Swedish actress Greta Garbo is best known for her career in both silent and talking films before World War II.
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.
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- April 15, 1990
Nov 20, 2020 · Miss Garbo is the nom de plume of South London songwriters Louise O’Hara and Andy Chapman, who ha... Introducing Miss Garbo with their debut single 'Forgotten'.
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Dec 6, 2021 · 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 more, never...
Feb 20, 2021 · America’s highest-paid film star in the 1930s was a Swedish-born woman we know as Greta Garbo. A legend during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Garbo was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, as well as very successful in the early talking films.
