- Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s
- Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances"
| Born: | 18 September 1905 Comment | | When did Greta Garbo die? / Died | 15 April 1990 | | How many years did Greta Garbo live? / Lived | 84 years | | Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
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Who was Greta Garbo? / Facts
- In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman
- Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling
- Her performance caught the attention of Louis B
- Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925
- She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star
- Garbo's first talking film was Anna Christie (1930)
- MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase "Garbo talks!" That same year she starred in Romance
- For her performances in these films she received the first of three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress (Academy rules at the time allowed for a performer to receive a single nomination for their work in more than one film)
- In 1932, her popularity allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract and she became increasingly selective about her roles
- Her success continued in films such as Mata Hari (1931) and Grand Hotel (1932)
- Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) to be her finest
- The role gained her a second Academy Award nomination
- Garbo's career soon declined, however, and she was one of the many stars labeled "Box Office Poison" in 1938
- Her career revived upon her turn to comedy in Ninotchka (1939), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination, but after the failure of Two-Faced Woman (1941), she retired from the screen, at the age of 35, after acting in twenty-eight films
- From then on, Garbo declined all opportunities to return to the screen
- Shunning publicity, she began a private life, and neither married nor had children
- Garbo also became an art collector in her later life; her collection, including works from painters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, and Kees van Dongen, was worth millions of dollars when she died
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