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Greta Garbo
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18 September 1905 - 15 April 1990
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The world famous Swedish and American actress Greta Garbo had a difficult childhood. Having lost her father, who died of tuberculosis, she was forced to work. No one could have imagined that this girl, who did the dirty work in the barbershop, would one day receive an Oscar for "outstanding contribution to the development of the art of film." Garbo's real name is Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, born in Stockholm in 1905. At the age of 13, she had to leave school, after a hairdresser, she got a job in a
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The world famous Swedish and American actress Greta Garbo had a difficult childhood. Having lost her father, who died of tuberculosis, she was forced to work. No one could have imagined that this girl, who did the dirty work in the barbershop, would one day receive an Oscar for "outstanding contribution to the development of the art of film."
Garbo's real name is Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, born in Stockholm in 1905. At the age of 13, she had to leave school, after a hairdresser, she got a job in a store where she not only stood behind the counter, but also posed for commercial shots. This led to her being noticed by director Eric Petcher, who cast her for a tiny role in his 1922 film Peter the Tramp.
Believing in her star, Greta entered the Royal Drama Theatre of Stockholm, where she became an actress. Here took place her acquaintance with the director Moritz Stiller, who invited Garbo in his film “The Saga of Jesta Burling”, invented her pseudonym Greta Garbo and for many years made her a star of silent cinema. She starred in the films Flow, Flesh and the Devil.
"Love" Then it was time for sound cinema, and many of the actors who played in the “great mute” could not adapt to the new conditions. Many, but not Garbo.
Her debut in sound cinema took place during the release in 1930 on the screens.
pictures by Anna Christie And he was quite successful. In 1931, she starred with Clark Gable in Susan Lenox: Fall and Rise. Then there were Mata Hari, Grand Hotel.
"The lady with the camellias" "Maria Valevska", "Ninochka", "Two-faced woman" and others.
Garbo was never married. In 1927, she almost married John Gilbert, but at the last minute canceled the wedding. In 1951, she became an American citizen, and in 1953, she purchased a seven-room apartment in Manhattan and lived there for the rest of her life. /