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Greta Garbo was an enigmatic superstar of silent films and early Hollywood "talkies" until her surprising retirement at age 36. She was discovered in Sweden and moved to America under contract to MGM Studios, where she played aloof, dramatic beauties in films like Flesh and The Devil (1926) and Mysterious Lady (1928). She became a star and made the transition to talking pictures: Anna Christie (1930) was promoted with the famous tag line "Garbo Talks!" In the 1930s she played doomed title characters like Mata Hari (1932) and Anna Karenina (1935) and was a pensive ballerina in the 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel, where she uttered the famous line "I want to be alone." She changed styles a bit for the 1939 Ernst Lubitsch satire Ninotchka, playing a drab Soviet envoy transformed by a Parisian romance. She stopped making films in 1941, refused all attempts to lure her back to Hollywood, and settled in New York City.
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Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905. Garbo was born in Stockholm to poor parents and was 14 when her father died. 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. The store ... used her for her modeling abilities for newspaper ads. She was not interested in entering the film industry until she appeared in an advertisement at that same department store while she was still a teenager. This led to another short film when Eric Petscher, a comedy director, saw the film.
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Greta Garbo is probably one of the most famous movie stars ever. She was born in Stockholm and her name was then Greta Gustavsson. She made her debut in 1921, in a commercial called "Eating pieces of pastry". One year later, she started at a drama school. Thereafter, in 1924, she got her breakthrough as Dohna in "Gösta Berling's Saga" after Selma Lagerlöf's book. She went with director Mauritz Stiller to Hollywood and became a great success. Between 1921 and 1942, she played in over 25 films and is most famous for her roles in "Mata Hari" (1932), "Christina" (1934), "Grand Hotel" (1932), "Anna Karenina" (1935), "Kameliadamen" (1936) and "Ninotschka" (1939).
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Greta Garbo made her first foray into talkies with the title role in this romance, based on Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Garbo plays a girl from Minnesota who tries to hide her past as a prostitute from both her father and the Irish sailor she's fallen for. George F. Marion, Charles Bickford co-star. Also includes the German-language version of the film, released in 1931. 89 min./85 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
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Even after her death in 1990, the legend of Greta Garbo was undiminished. Few of her fans talk of her in human terms; to her devotees, Greta Garbo was not so much film legend as film goddess. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
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The following text appears on the selvage: Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was born in Sweden and became one of the greatest stars of the silver screen. Transitioning from silent films to the sound movies of Hollywood, Garbo captivated audiences with her seductive voice, which enhanced the acting style and beauty that made her a legend.
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