She was innate Greta Lovisa Gustafsson around Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of leash kids innate to Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871-1920) and Anna Lovisa Johansson (1872-1944), both of whom were Lutherans. Her older sister & brother were Alva & Sven.

Becoming an actress
Once Greta was Xiv, her father, to whom she was super close, died, & her relationship by owning her mother was, at the best, strained. Consequently, she was forced to leave school & return operate. Her 1st job was as the lather girl around a barbershop. She so became the clerk within the emporium, in which she would too model for newspaper advertisements. Her number one motion picture aspirations came whilst she appeared around an advertising shot for the emporium in which she worked. That led to an additional short moving picture, which was seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast her around the little a share for the moving picture Peter A Tramp (1922).

From either 1922 to 1924, she studied at a prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre inside Stockholm. When she was there, she met a Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her around cinema acting technique and cast her around the major role around Gösta Berlings Saga (1924) (English: The Story of Gösta Berling) paired Swedish film actor Lars Hanson. He besides gave her a stage name Greta Garbo. She starred witharound both motion-picture show in Sweden and one inside Germany.

Whenever Stiller went to the United States in 1925 to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he insisted that Garbo be given the contract too. However their relationship come to an prevent when her fame grew. He was fired by MGM & returned to Sweden in 1928, where he died shortly fallowing.

Life in Hollywood
A first of Garbo's silent movies were The Torrent (1926), Flesh & a Devil (1927) & Love (1927). She starred in a latter deuce sustaining the popular leading human John Gilbert. Her title was linked sustaining his within a very much publicised romance, & she was said to stand left him standing at the altar while she changed her mind all about espouse. A actress reportedly experienced many sapphic lovers, including a actress Louise Brooks and the writer/socialite Mercedes de Acosta. She too experienced an in-&-off affair by using a primarily homosexual British lensman Cecil Beaton, to whom she was briefly engaged.

Getting achieved tremendous profits as a silent movie star, she was one of a couple world health organization mass produced the transition to talkies. Her moo, husky voice using Swedish accent was heard on screen first inside Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1930), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks." The movie was a huge success, but Garbo personally hated her performance.

Regrettably, her of these-sometime fiancé, John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did non fare too fallowing a advent of healthy due to the high pitch & thinness of his voice, & his career faltered.

Whilst she was filmed, whenever something happened that she was non supprised by using she would say, "I think I'll go back to Sweden!" This would frighten the movie studio heads, who gave around to her each wish. She was known for universally with the closed placed to completely visitant. There is no a single may watch over when her scenes were shot. Garbo appeared super seductive when the World War I spy in the title role of Mata Hari (1932). A censors complained all about her revealing outfit shown on the moving-picture show poster. She was next a portion of an 100% star cast within Grand Hotel (1932).

She so experienced the contract dispute with MGM & did non pop up on the screen for nearly deuce years. It eventually settled & she signed the newly contract, which granted her well-nigh sum control above her film. She exercised that control by generating her leading human in Queen Christina (1934), Laurence Olivier, replaced with Gilbert. David O. Selznick wanted her cast as the dying heiress in Dark Victory in 1935, but she insisted on being cast instead in another screen version of Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina. She experienced manufactured the silent version, Love, by using John Gilbert inside (1927).

Her performance when a doomed odalisque within Camille (1936) was called a finest ever recorded in film. She so starred paired Melvyn Douglas in the comedy Ninotchka (1939) directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Garbo was nominated for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna Christie (1930), Romance (1930 movie) (1930)), Camille (1937) and Ninotchka (1939).

Greta Garbo was considered one of a virtually all glamourous film star of the 1920s and 1930s. She was too far-famed for shunning publicity, which became part of the Garbo mystique. Her illustrious byline was universally said to become: "I want to be alone," spoken by owning a heavily accent which processed the word 'desire' healthy rather 'vont'. Nevertheless Garbo commented late, "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference." Except at a super beginning of her career, she granted there is there is there is there are no interviews, gestural no autographs, attended no premieres & answered no fan mail. Based on data from personal letters freed around Sweden withwithin 2005 to mark a centennial of her birth, she was reclusive in section because she was self-obsessed, gloomy, & ashamed of her latrine-cleaner father. It besides indicate that Garbo remained only in a United States because of an unreciprocated love for her drama school sweetheart, the Swedish actress Mimi Pollak [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1567211,00.html].

Ninotchka was a successful attempt at lightening Garbo's image & making her less exotic, complete by having a insertion of a scene where her character breaks into gleeful laughter which afterwards provided the film using its noted tagline, "Garbo laughs!"

The watch-higher film, 2-Faced Woman (1941), attempted to capitalize by casting Garbo within the romanticistic comedy, in which she would play the double role that besides featured her terpsichore. A film, directed by George Cukor, was a failure. It was Garbo's endure screen appearance.

These are typically reported that Garbo chose to retire from either cinema when this film's failure, however already by 1935 she was becoming other choosey all about her roles, & sooner or later years passed forswearing her agreeing to launder a second film. By her have admission, Garbo felt that when World War II the world changed, perhaps forever.

Inside 1949, Garbo filmed the screen test as she considered reentering the pic business, however otherwise never stepped before of the cine-camera over again. There were suggestions that she will come out when a "Duchess de Guermantes" around the film adaptation of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (in those days a novel was however usually referred to as "Remembrance of Things Past" in the English-speaking globe) however this never come to fruition. She withdrew from either the amusement globe totally & moved to a secluded life within New York City, refusing to make any public appearances. Higher until her demise, Garbo sightings were considered sport for paparazzi photographers.

Secluded retirement
Garbo felt her film got their proper place around history & would benefit within value. In February 9, 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Around 1954 she was awarded a favorite Oscar for her unforgettable performances. In the mid-1950s, she bought a 7 room flat within New York at 450 East 52nd Street, where she lived for the rest of her life.

She would at days jet-placed by having a few of the globe's most famous personalities like Aristotle Onassis, but chose to survive the personal life. She spent period horticulture flowers & vegetables & was known for ingesting walks across Up to date York streets dressed casually & wearing big shades, universally avoiding nosy eyes, a paparazzi and media attention.

Garbo lived a survive years of her life inside absolute seclusion. She got invested with super sagely, was known for extreme frugalness, & was the super affluent woman. These are rumored that she wrote an autobiography just before her demise however this book has eventually to become published in case it is.

She died at age 84 following of renal failure in New York & was cremated. She experienced antecedently been operated & treated for breast cancer, which she apparently overcame. She left her estate to her niece. Her ashes come buried at a Skogskyrkogården Cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden.

Gretthe Garbo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Garbo's legacy

Within September 2005, when section of the series of stamps issued to commemorate film star, the U.S. Postal Service released a stamp showing Garbo, honoring her enduring status as a film icon.

Filmography

Mr. and Mrs. Stockholm (1920) (short subject) How Not to Dress (1921) (short subject) A Happy Knight (1921) Peter the Tramp (1922) The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924) The Joyless Street (1925) The Torrent (1926) The Temptress (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) Love (1927) The Divine Woman (1928) The Mysterious Lady (1928) A Woman of Affairs (1928) Wild Orchids (1929) A Man's Man (1929) (Cameo) The Single Standard (1929) The Kiss (1929) Anna Christie (1930) Romance (1930) Inspiration (1931) Love Business (1931) (short subject) (appears in gag photograph) Anna Christie (1931) (German version) Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) Mata Hari (1931) Grand Hotel (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) Queen Christina (1933) The Painted Veil (1934) Anna Karenina (1935) Camille (1936) Conquest (1937) Ninotchka (1939) Two-Faced Woman'' (1941)