After her highest grossing film, Grand Hotel (1932), Greta Garbo only made eight more movies. She concluded her career with Two-Faced Woman (1941) a convoluted tale about fictitious twin sisters. The film was a flop.

Two-Faced Woman was an attempt to modernise and Americanise Garbo’s image. At the time, her fan base was shrinking in America, so she decided to pull the plug.

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In July 1937, Picturegoer published a summary of Greta Garbo’s career. Here are the entries for 1932 and 1933.

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In July 1937, Picturegoer published a summary of Greta Garbo’s career. Here are the entries for 1930 and 1931.

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In July 1937, Picturegoer published a summary of Greta Garbo’s career. Here are the entries for 1928 and 1929.

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In July 1937, Picturegoer published a summary of Greta Garbo’s career. Here are the entries for 1926 and 1927.

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Mata Hari (1931) was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful movie to date grossing over $40m in today’s money.

International Photographer called the film "drama in its sternest mood" with "few smiles and no laughs.” However, the general tone of the review was excellent.

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Greta Garbo’s transition to the talkies was complete when, in 1930, she made Romance. Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times said, “Greta Garbo's performance in Romance is perhaps as good as anything she has done on the screen."

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Greta Garbo’s first sound film was Anna Christie (1930). The movie was marketed with the slogan "Garbo Talks!"

Fearing that Garbo would not adapt to the talkies, MGM held her back. In fact, her English was so good she had to add an accent in several retakes to sound more like the Swedish Anna.

Greta Garbo’s famous first line: “Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby!"

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#GretaGarbo didn’t retire ... she went on to appear in Are You Being Served? as Mrs. Slocombe! 🤣 Read about it here: https://eerietom.dreamwidth.org/11708.html

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The Kiss (1929) was Greta Garbo’s, and MGM’s, last silent film. In fact, the film is not entirely silent: MGM incorporated an orchestral score and sound effects recorded by the Movietone system.

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Adrian was Hollywood’s leading costume designer in the 1930s. In September 1935, he offered Photoplay his thoughts on Greta Garbo.

Q Is Garbo a beautiful woman?

A She is a very beautiful woman, particularly in a sensitive, rather spiritual way. I think her eyes are extraordinary, and her eyelashes are extremely long. She has a beautiful body, slender and athletic.

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Adrian was Hollywood’s leading costume designer in the 1930s. In September 1935, he offered Photoplay his thoughts on Greta Garbo.

Q What does Garbo’s private wardrobe consist of?

A Tailored suits, various top coats of the sporty variety, sweaters, slacks, berets, sports hats and sports shoes. I don’t think she has an evening gown, and if she has I’m sure she has never worn it.

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Adrian was Hollywood’s leading costume designer in the 1930s. An openly gay man, he entered into a lavender marriage with Janet Gaynor, the first actress to win an Academy Award. In September 1935, Adrian offered Photoplay his thoughts on Greta Garbo.

Q Is Garbo’s perpetual fleeing done for effect, or because she really doesn’t like people?

A It surely isn’t done for effect. She hates being stared at and being made a fuss over.

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In Photoplay, April 1931, Katherine Albert wrote a scathing article attacking Greta Garbo. The fans, 15,854 of them, responded. “Garbo is the scale by which we measure our stars. No one has ever reached her standard.” “Garbo is all soul in an age where soul is forgotten.”

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Greta Garbo’s great success produced a backlash in the movie magazines. In Photoplay, April 1931, Katherine Albert wrote: “I’m bored with Garbo! Great directors (behind locked doors and in whispers) have confided that Garbo is no great shakes as an actress. Her great artistry is no more than a facial trick, which in some way piques the imagination.”

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Greta Garbo’s most famous romance was with her frequent co-star John Gilbert. The couple lived together, intermittently, in 1926 and 1927 when Gilbert became Garbo’s mentor. He helped her to develop her acting skills and taught her how to behave like a star, socialise at parties, and deal with the studio bosses.

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An instant hit in America, Greta Garbo made eight more silent films, and all were successful. She starred in three of them with leading man John Gilbert. In Flesh and the Devil (1926) Garbo’s performance was sensuality personified.

It came as no surprise when Garbo and Gilbert’s on-screen chemistry translated into an off-screen romance. By the end of the production, they were living together.

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Between 1920 and 1922 Greta Garbo appeared in two advertisements: Mr and Mrs Stockholm Go Shopping and Our Daily Bread; and two films: A Fortune Hunter and Peter the Tramp. In 1924 she played Elizabeth Dohna in The Saga of Gösta Berling, her first leading role in a feature-length film, which ran for 180 minutes in two parts.

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Greta Garbo, July 1930: 5’ 6”, 8st 10lbs, 36” - 26” - 38”.

Photographic experts considered Greta Garbo’s face to be unique in that it was perfectly symmetrical, which meant that she could be photographed from any angle in any kind of light. The distance between her eyes was the same as from her chin to her nose and from the bridge of her nose to the top of her forehead.

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Me gustó el disco nuevo de Enrique Bunbury «Greta Garbo», que salió hace solo un par de semanas 👌🏻
Recomiendo darle una escuchada.

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