One of the biggest stars of cinema To this day, the Greta Garbo He has never been forgotten and continues to be a role model for many. The mystery that anyone who saw her felt, a truly unparalleled actress who, although she has spent over 80 years since her career was in her “picnic”, remains a legend of space. This eroticism that emitted, the melancholy character and its inner ignition, created a unique persona that was never overcome.
Swedish actress, Greta Garbo, greeted the cinema area At just 36 years oldwhen he was still at the top, knowing the absolute glory and lived the rest of the 49 years, out of the limelight. Whenever we saw her, she appeared under an umbrella or a large hat, creating many rumors and stories about her mysterious personality and many questions about her personal life.
She never returned to cinema as many would expect and after her death, dozens of biographies of her were writtensome rumors will be confirmed, others again, they will remain unanswered to maintain the mystery of this top actor.
Greta Garbo, born 120 years ago, pOn September 18, 1905, she has left her story engraved in the memory of many of that time. She remains an iconic Hollywood Golden Actress, who turned 27 films, with her personal life remaining a mystery, no matter how many pages have been written about it.
The difficult childhood and the beginning of success
Greta Lovisa Gustafson was born in a degraded area of Stockholm, from poor workers and parentsThe two older brothers had two older siblings. Her family was so poor that her father’s boss suggested to adopt her, but her mother refused. She had a difficult time in her childhood and forever remembered the endless gray winter nights in her miserable home, where her mother was stuck in tattered clothes, sighing.
At 14, she lost her father to the Spanish flu and Greta will face great difficulties. At first she worked as an assistant in a barber shop and then as a saleswoman at a large Stockholm department store where she was also used as a model for hats. Will start working as modelwhile the beginning of her story in cinema begins in 1922 when director Eric Petsler will give her a roll in the comedy of “Peter the Tramp”. Immediately afterwards, he will study with a scholarship for two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of Stockholm.
Her mentor
When she was found by the greatest director of the thriving Swedish cinema then, Moritz Steler, She interrupted her studies, and her new mentor will change her name to Garbo, forge her hypocritically and immediately make her a protagonist in two of her films, with the second “StREets of Sorrow”, impressing throughout Europe.
The mystery of Sweden’s sphinx
When Steler accepted a proposal from renowned producer Louis B. Mayer, to go to Hollywood, he agreed on the condition that he would take Gretta with him, the next big name. The couple, although Stiller was gay, will arrive in New York on July 5, 1925, avoiding talking to the press, causing a mystery around Garbo, described as “the Sphinx of Sweden”. Something that stimulated the MGM Public Relations Department, sharing several “amateur” photographs of the enigmatic actress.
The first movie in Hollywood
Her first film in Hollywood will be the emotional drama ‘The torrent’by Monta Bell, who will be screened in 1926 and will immediately become a protagonist, as the audience and film critics agreed that a new star was born. The paradox is that Stiller has never been able to talk to the studio managers, and will make only three films in America before returning to Sweden in 1928, and dies at 45 years.
The first ‘riddle’
As Steler predicted, even in his last letter, shortly before he died, to his “protected”, the roads of glory and interpretive recognition will open for Garbo. Co -starring next to John Gilbert, great love of her life, as she revealed in romantic drama «Flesh and the Devil» (1926) by Clares Brown, he first seized the audience. She presented distant, enigmatic, introverted and deeply melancholic, and left MGM and the press speechless with her incredible success.
The now sought -after actress, in a few years, will ask for and get crazy money for each of her film, which doubled in record time, reaching half a million dollars. It will also require something unthinkable for the time, to have high control of production and the director.
Finally the silent cinema – not the end of Garbo
With the disappearance of silent cinema, MGM’s makers would worry, as they were afraid to hear the voice of many stars (many of whom disappeared with the silent cinema), and especially Garbo, who had the Swedish. But the answer will be given by the audience, when her first two speaking films, Anna Christie and “Romance”, will have a great success.
The huge successes
The sequel to Garbo will be even more glamorous, starring in huge commercial and artistic successes, classic films, still watched today. Some of her most important films and with her own recording unforgettable interpretations, It is: “Grand Otel”, “Anna Karenina”, “Mata Hari”, “Queen Christina”, “Maria Valefska”, “The Lady with the Camellias”, “Ninotska”.
Her last two films have brought two more nominations for Oscarout of the four in total. Garbo first broke the first, with which the actors played, with its naturalistic flashes, establishing interpretive realism in Hollywood.
The end
Greta Garbo, after the frustration she felt from the not -so -successful comedy, directed by renowned George Kyukor «Two-Faced Woman»decided that it was time to say goodbye to cinema. The actress who could have any director and star wanting next to her, will make her interpretations, he will find himself against the general economic crisis of the crash and the war that Europe was supplying, will realize that the audience was removed from the US. She herself only 36 in 1941 and if she had decided to stop, her name will come back to purely cinematic texts when 1955 She will be given the only Oscar, This is for her contribution to cinema. Of course maintaining the mystery and its decision not to be in front of the spotlight again, did not attend the ceremony.
Her enigmatic personal life
Garbo’s personal life has worked for all those I knew and millions of pages have been written about her. What must be mentioned most, of course, is its chronic depression, its loneliness and its narcissism. Her erotic relationships seem to have been countless, With star, famous secular, multimillionaires, but also with several women.
Actress John Gilbert was probably the most important love of her life, and although she made her four marriage proposals, she never said “yes”. He will have a love affair with Cuban writer and cosmic Mersentes de Acosta, spending six weeks full of ecstasy in Sierra Nevada, with whom he split up when he fell in love with director Ruben Mamulian in the shooting of “Queen Christina”.
Garbo, which many celebrities had fallen in love with because of the mystery that emitted, such as Brecht and Man, will also have an important love affair with the famed maestro Leopold Stokovsky.
During World War II and while he had already retired from cinema, he will meet Georg Sli a cosmic millionaire who maintained a fashion house with his wife Valentina. The three of them will make an erotic trio, which will end not so well when SELLI dies in Paris, at a hotel, next to Garbo and she abandoned him, irreparably hurt Valentina.
“Then” and “Today”
Garbo lived in the last years as a ghost, and spent the rest of the time of the art and… erotic companions collector, and from the late 1980s she will get sick of her kidneys, she will need bloodthirsty and hemorrhage and hemorrhage and will die on April 15, 1990. She herself was cremated as she had requested to be buried in a Stockholm cemetery.
Today, Movies have a museum interest, And no one can question her contribution to the evolution of cinematic acting and the attraction she created in a camera and audience. Betty Davies, who had no easy reason, will say to Ninotska that “her instinct, her dominance on the cinema was pure magic, without explaining it.” What Davis could not explain was done by the famous actress Dolores Del Rio: “It was as if she had diamonds in her bones and inside the light that struggled to come out of her skin pores.”
Source: RES-EIA