She captivated millions on both sides of the Atlantic. She was even dubbed “the most beautiful woman that ever lived.” Her life behind the scenes was as enigmatic as her image on screen. So, what ever happened to silent-film star Greta Garbo after all that success? The Swedish actress never really liked talking to the press. You know what she famously said when asked about her personal life? “I was born. I had a mother and father. I went to school. What does it matter?” And still, her younger days in Sweden affected her deeply. If not for them, she probably wouldn’t have found her calling at all… TIMESTAMPS:
Her acting debut… of sorts 🎬 0:43
Where the new stage name came from 1:36
When talent isn’t enough to become a big star 2:26
What about her real life? 3:46
“Garbo talks!” 4:49
How much money did she earn? 💰 5:44
Which role ended her career 6:07
Why she left cinema for good 6:47
… and what was her life like after that 7:08 #GretaGarbo #Hollywood #brightside Preview photo credit: Mata Hari (1931) Promo shot of Greta Garbo: By Capital Pictures/EAST NEWS, https://www.eastnews.ru/pictures/picture/id/59765170/i/0/t/0
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– Her dad passed, leaving her family of now 4 in unimaginable financial hardship. She desperately had to earn a living, so she started working at a department store. – Once she started acting in commercials in 1920, her path to the big screen was now wide open. – Greta enrolled in acting school at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater. When she graduated in 1924, she was discovered by one of Sweden’s leading directors, Mauritz Stiller.
– He was also the one who insisted she use a stage name. After all, “Gustafsson” didn’t exactly roll off the tongue, and the difficult pronunciation would make the aspiring actress’s name hard to remember.
– And soon enough, her fame would go trans-Atlantic. In 1925, the famous American film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered Stiller to work in Hollywood.
– But it was a time when talent wasn’t enough for an actress to become a big star. Garbo was forced to lose weight and learn English, her hair was dyed, her teeth were fixed, and her eyebrows were tweezed into thin threads. – In 1926, Garbo played a Spanish singer in her first American film called Torrent. It was a hit.
– Most of Garbo’s films were love stories or dramas, and her unique performance on screen combined both passion and restraint.
– Despite being one of Hollywood’s major idols, she didn’t attend movie premieres, talk to reporters, or sign autographs.
– In 1930, she made her debut in the sound film Anna Christie. Her raspy sound fascinated people no less than her gaze that could replicate dozens of emotions. The picture was once again well received.
– According to TIME, she was the top-paid actor in 1934, with a whopping $500,000 salary! – In 1941, she appeared in Two-Faced Woman. The critics called the story silly, and it was a flop. The film’s failure supposedly hurt the actress’s self-esteem tremendously. – She moved to Manhattan, where she’d take long strolls down the streets of New York wearing huge sunglasses to not be spotted. – And although she wasn’t making movies anymore, she hadn’t given up on art entirely. She turned to collecting paintings and bought the works of Jawlensky, Renoir, and many others.
– Greta Garbo died in 1990 at the age of 84. As biographer Barry Paris put it, she was an anomaly. Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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