Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden at 7:30 p.m. She became an art collector whose collection, though containing many works of negligible value, included works from Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard and Kees van Dongen, which were worth millions of dollars when she died.
But after the failure of Two-Faced Woman (1941), she retired from the screen at the age of 35 after acting in 28 films.Īfter retiring, Garbo declined all opportunities to return to the screen and, shunning publicity, led a private life. Her career revived with a turn to comedy in Ninotchka (1939) which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. However, Garbo's career soon declined and she became one of many stars labeled box office poison in 1938. Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) to be her finest and the role gained her a second Academy Award nomination. She continued in films such as Mata Hari (1931), Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), Queen Christina (1933) and Anna Karenina (1935). By 1932 her success allowed her to dictate the terms of her contracts and she became increasingly selective about her roles. With Garbo's first sound film, Anna Christie (1930), MGM marketers enticed the public with the tagline "Garbo talks!" That same year she starred in Romance and for her performances in both films she received the first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Other well-known Garbo films from the silent era are The Mysterious Lady (1928), The Single Standard (1929) and The Kiss (1929). In 1928, Garbo starred in A Woman of Affairs, which catapulted her at MGM to its highest box-office star, usurping the long reigning Lillian Gish. Garbo's performance in Flesh and the Devil (1927), her third movie, made her an international star.
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She stirred interest with her first American silent film, Torrent (1926). Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B.
Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. She was known for her melancholic, somber persona due to her many film portrayals of tragic characters and for her subtle and understated performances. Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress.
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