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NAME:	Greta Garbo
PROFILE:	Name: Greta Garbo Birth Name: Greta Lovisa Gustafson Height: 5' 7'' Sex: F Nationality: American Birth Date: September 18, 1905 Birth Place: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Profession: actress Education: Royal Dramatic Theater School, Stockholm Place of Death: April 15, 1990 Death Date: New York, New York, USA Death Cause: pneumonia Relationship: John Gilbert (actor; died on January 9, 1936) Brother: Sven Gustafsson Claim to fame: as Felicitas von Kletzingk in Flesh and the Devil (1926) Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:	She was interred at Skogskyrkogården Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden. She lived the last few year of her life in absolute seclusion. Letters and correspondence between Garbo and poet, socialite and notorious lesbian Mercedes De Acosta were unsealed on April 15, 2000, exactly 10 years after Garbo's death (per De Acosta's instructions). The letters revealed no love affair between the two, as had been fervently rumored. Garbo according to movie director Jacques Feyder: At 9 o'clock AM the work may begin. Tell Mrs. Garbo we're ready says the director. I'm here a low voice answers, and she appears, perfectly dressed and combed as the scene needs. Nobody could say by what door she came but she's there. And at 6 o'clock PM, even if the shot could be finished in five minutes, she points at the watch and goes away giving you a sorry smile. She's very strict with herself and hardly pleased with her work. She never looks rushes nor goes to the premières but some days later, early in the afternoon, enters all alone an outskirts movie house, takes place in a cheap seat and gets out only when the projection finishes, masked with her sunglasses. She was once voted by The Guinness Book of World Records as the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Her father died when she was 14 of nephritis, and her sister was also dead of lymphatic cancer by the time Greta was 21 years old. Her personal favorite movie of her own was CAMILLE (1937) She disliked Clark Gable, a feeling that was mutual. She thought his acting was wooden while he considered her a snob. She left John Gilbert (I) standing at the altar in 1927 when she got cold feet about marrying him. Before making it big, she worked as a soap-latherer in a barber's shop back in Sweden. During filming, whenever there was something going on that wasn't to her liking she would simply say I think I'll go back to Sweden! which frightened the studio heads so much that they gave in to her every whim. In the mid-1950s she bought a seven-room-apartment in New York City (450 East 52nd Street) and lived there until she died. Garbo's sets were closed to all visitors and sometimes even the director! When asked why, she said: During these scenes I allow only the cameraman and lighting man on the set. The director goes out for a coffee or a milkshake. When people are watching, I'm just a woman making faces for the camera. It destroys the illusion. If I am by myself, my face will do things I cannot do with it otherwise. Garbo was criticized for not aiding the Allies during WWII, but it was later disclosed that she had helped Britain by identifying influential Nazi sympathizers in Stockholm and by providing introductions and carrying messsages for British agents. Garbo was prone to chronic depression and spent many years attacking it through Eastern philosophy and a solid health food regiment. However, she never gave up smoking and cocktails. MORE GRETA GARBO TRIVIA
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