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Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.
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She had also been linked to art dealer and Greta Garbo confidante Sam Green, who is mentioned in Lennon's will.
Garbo had an older brother, Sven Alfred ( 1898 – 1967 ), and an older sister, Alva Maria ( 1903 – 1926 ).
At the age of 13, Garbo graduated from school and typical of a Swedish working-class girl at that time, she did not attend high school ; she would later confess she had an inferiority complex about this.
" In the second version, Mayer had already seen Gosta Berling before his Berlin trip and Garbo, not Stiller, was his primary interest.
However, Garbo again got very good reviews, and MGM had a new star.
Still, Garbo signed a contract in 1948 for $ 200, 000 with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced Queen Christina, to shoot a picture based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.
As she had been during her Hollywood years, Garbo, with her innate need for solitude, was often reclusive.
Garbo never married, had no children, and lived alone as an adult.
Recent biographers and others think it highly likely that Garbo was bisexual, or lesbian, and that she had intimate relationships with women as well as with men.
In 1927 Garbo was introduced to stage and screen actress Lilyan Tashman and strong evidence indicates that the two began an affair ; silent film star Louise Brooks stated that she and Garbo had a brief liaison the following year.
In 2005, Swedish actress Mimi Pollak, a close friend in drama school, released sixty letters Garbo had written her in their long correspondence.
Garbo and Lubitsch were friendly and had hoped to work together on a movie for years, but this would be their only project.
Lee Duncan gave some of the original Rin Tin Tin's puppies, those from mate Nanette ( the second Nanette who was given to Duncan to replace the original who had died shortly after arriving in the United States ), to friends such as Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, and Will Keith Kellogg.
As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was " one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo ".
* Hitchcock had originally wanted Greta Garbo to play Mrs Maddalena Anna Paradine, but she turned down the role after the screen test, which allowed Alida Valli to step into the role for her American film debut.
David O. Selznick had purchased the rights to Robert S. Hichens ' novel in 1933, before it was published, when Selznick was still at MGM, with Greta Garbo in mind to star – indeed, Garbo was Hichens ' inspiration for the creation of " Mrs. Paradine ".
( Garbo had also turned down I Remember Mama at about the same time, and is reputed to have said " No murderesses, no mamas ".
Hitchcock was also interested in Ronald Colman for the part, as well as Garbo ( who had not yet turned down the project ) or Ingrid Bergman for " Mrs. Paradine ".
Over the next decade she had romances with several famous actresses and dancers including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Ona Munson, and Russian ballerina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina.
A supporting actress in Coup de Grâce was Valeska Gert, a former cabaret dancer, circus performer and silent film actress who had worked with Greta Garbo and G. W. Pabst.
" She was a very valuable asset for MGM, because the studio had so many femmes fatales – Garbo, Crawford, Shearer, and Harlow – that we were always on the lookout for ' shady lady ' stories.
Goebbels had initially attempted to get Greta Garbo for this film, but was unsuccessful, and he did not like the finished film, which became the first foreign film to be released in Norway with its soundtrack dubbed into Norwegian.
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The Green Hat was turned into a play, produced on Broadway, successfully, in 1925 starring Katherine Cornell and almost simultaneously but less successfully in London's West End starring Tallulah Bankhead, and a Hollywood movie ( silent ) in 1928, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
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* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.
Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.
Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.
He made an offer but Stiller demanded that Garbo be part of any contract, convinced that she would be an asset to his career.
Garbo is the subject of several documentaries, including four made in the United States between 1990 and 2005:
The Swedish royal medal, Litteris et Artibus, awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art or literature, was presented to Garbo in January 1937.
In November 1983, Garbo was made a Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star by order of King Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden.
But onscreen he made audiences swoon as he romanced Marlene Dietrich in The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night ( 1937 ), Greta Garbo in Conquest ( 1937 ), and Irene Dunne in Love Affair ( 1939 ).
" By doing so, he made stars of actors like Lon Chaney, Ramon Navarro, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Luise Rainer, and Greta Garbo.
In 1926, Gilbert made Flesh and the Devil, his first film with Greta Garbo.
It was said that at the apparent double wedding of Garbo and Gilbert and director King Vidor and actress Eleanor Boardman, Mayer made a crude remark about Garbo to the distraught Gilbert, causing him to physically attack the mogul.
Loy's stylish bad girl role was more akin to the sort that made Greta Garbo famous than her own reputation as " the ideal wife " which MGM promoted for many years.
As a result, viewers interested in tracing the career development of actresses like Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo or actors like Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart have the unique opportunity to see most of the feature films made during their careers, from beginning to end.
The play became a hit, and its English-language adaptation enjoyed a huge success in New York in the early 1930s and was made in to the blockbuster 1932 Academy Award-winning film, Grand Hotel, starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.
In 1931, that book would be made into an MGM motion picture of the same name and starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable.
Queen Christina ( 1933 ) was the last film Greta Garbo made with John Gilbert.
In 1949 he shot tests and was hired for a never made comeback film starring Greta Garbo ( La Duchesse de Langeais ).
Garbo and talkies
Leading roles are played by Greta Garbo, at the time one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood, and John Gilbert, whose career heavily declined with the rise of talkies.
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