Greta Garbo was considered one of the most glamorous movie stars of the 1920s and 1930s. She was also famous for shunning publicity, which became part of the Garbo mystique. Except at the very beginning of her career, she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres, ...
At the time of her death, she was estimated to be worth more than $55 million. Eventually Garbo left California and settled into a new life in New York City, where she loved to window shop. Periodic Greta Garbo spottings were reported like UFO sightings. Her friends during this last ...
Greta Lovisa Gustafsson better known as Greta Garbo, was a noted Swedish actress and recluse. She was a major star in the United States during the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars...
When she died in 1990 at the age of 85, Greta Garbo had not been seen on the screen for almost half a century but she was never forgotten. To the end of her life, she was pursued by the media much to her great consternation. She is supposed to have said “I want to be alone”...
‘bossy’. But she was also said to be ‘loads of fun’ and ‘always ready for mischief’. Garbo, as she referred to be called in her adult life, would stay in touch with some of them even as she was heading towards old age. But one pattern had already emerged: she had no ...
Garbo retired from all cinema at the age of 35, and retreated from the public eye as much as she could—the famously private star used this homeas her“resplendent refuge.” Interested parties should come prepared—the building, where Rex Harrison and Ethel Barrymore also once resided, doesn...
“I want to be alone,” says Pedro’s favorite diva Greta Garbo — actually the Greta of the title — in her famous line from Grand Hotel, but all of the characters in this particular story can only continue to live by forging connections with others around them rather than withdrawing ...
MANILA, Philippines - Known for her poetry that lifts the ordinary to the realm of magic, sees the world in oblique, surprising ways and explores the comic in the human condition, Polish poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Wislawa Szymborksa died last Feb. 1 in her native Krakow....
We still had Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo, who gave us immortal androgyny– there was no one who could shatter the silence, and ceremoniously ring the bells out in the open. There were no ‘obvious’ gay role models. We had to create tha...
I was born. I had a mother and father. I went to school. What does it matter? Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Famous Actors Dick Van Dyke Announces Sentimental Career News ...