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Greta Garbo: Death
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Greta Garbo is the divine star among all silver screen goddesses. Such a legend and icon, such a symbol and personality, such a tremendous actress and celebrity has been honoured throughout her life, starting in the 20-ies already- but has even been more acknowledged after her death in 1990.
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To many of her friends, Greta Garbo was ever the Viking child "troubled by a dream of snow." Even her adopted family--the children and grand-children of her brother, Sven Gustafsson--had very little knowledge of what her life had been like prior to their arrival in America. "Were you ever very happy?" her nephew, Dr. Donald Reisfield, asked just two weeks before her death. After a long pause there was a simple but resounding 'Yes'--"Joyce's fifty pages of yes condensed in a word," Dr. Reisfield wrote.
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Greta Garbo was ... famous for being a recluse. She remained unapproachable and unreachable for a good part of her life until her death. In guarding her privacy with a determination that was extraordinary, Garbo created an aura of mystery that the entertainment industry fell in love with.
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Garbo may always be best known for roles in which she plays women suffering terminal cases of love or disease. These were her bread-and-butter pictures, the ones designed for the same shopgirls who suffered along with Joan Crawford. Yet Garbo's ''women's pictures'' are different. In ''Queen Christina,'' there is more than a hint of lesbianism that only Garbo's force of personality could make acceptable to the movie-going public in 1933. Though she is supposedly dying of tuberculosis in ''Camille,'' her beauty and sensitivity are strong enough to carry not only Robert Taylor's inert Armand, but ... the movie. She looks no closer to death in ''Camille'' than Joan Sutherland's Violetta in ''Traviata,'' but her death is as exalting as any that Sutherland died on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Garbo lived the last years of her life in absolute seclusion. She had invested very wisely, was known for extreme frugality, and was a very wealthy woman. It is rumored that she wrote an autobiography just before her death but this book has yet to be published if it even exists.
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