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Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905. Garbo was born in Stockholm to poor parents. She was 14 when her father died, leaving the family destitute. Consequently, Greta was forced to leave school and go to work, first as a lather girl in a barbershop, then as a clerk in a department store.
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At the age of 14 Greta Garbo’s father died and the young girl was forced to leave school and get a job in order to help her disadvantaged family (her mother and two siblings). She got herself a job at the Stockholm department store PUB, and it was not long after that the store would use Garbo’s unique look in their advertising campaigns. Soon after appearing in newspaper ad’s Garbo went on to make an advertising short for PUB, which would giver her first taste for film. After appearing in another short film, a comedy director gave Garbo a small part in his production of Luffarpetter (1922) and soon after the young Greta received a scholarship at a drama school in Stockholm.
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In most of her films, Greta Garbo played mysterious and romantic women. In 1926, she burst into stardom with the film "The Torrent". Her film career took off in the USA, and Garbo grew enormously popular. She left the entertainment world at just 37 years of age, stung by criticism of "Two-faced Woman". Thereafter, she led an anonymous life in New York until her death in 1990. Not until June 1999 was she buried at the Skogskyrkogården cemetery in Stockholm. The cemetery is open to the public, and visitors can see her grave there. www.garbosallskapet.h.se
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When Greta was 14, her father, to whom she was extremely close, died, and her relationship with her mother was, at best, strained. Consequently, she was forced to leave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk in the department store PUB in Stockholm, where she would ... model for newspaper advertisements. Her first motion picture aspirations came when she appeared in a group of advertising short films for the department store where she worked, eventually seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast her in a bit part for his upcoming film Peter The Tramp (1922) (although her major motion picture debut was a year earlier in a low-budget film).
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Greta Garbo's ashes were buried on a small wooded hill at Skogskyrkogården (Forest Cemetary) on June 16 1999, where a red headstone carrying her signature in gold marks the spot. The architecturally beautiful cemetary is itself on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is located 3 kms south of central Stockholm.
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The family lived in a shabby district of Stockholm, and Greta had to leave school at the age of 13 to help care for her seriously ill father. Every week she took him to a charity clinic, where they had to wait hours for his treatment. She vowed to build her life so she would never be financially dependent.
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