| Greta Garbo Quick Info | |
|---|---|
| Height | 5 ft 6¼ in |
| Weight | 50 kg |
| Date of Birth | September 18, 1905 |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Date of Death | April 15, 1990 |
Greta Garbo was a Swedish actor who is regarded as one of the greatest screen actors of all time. She appeared in films such as Camille, Anna Christie, Romance, Anna Karenina, Ninotchka, As You Desire Me, The Saga of Gosta Berling, Flesh and the Devil, Torrent, The Joyless Street, The Temptress, The Mysterious Lady, Conquest, Love, A Woman of Affairs, The Painted Veil, The Single Standard, The Divine Woman, The Kiss, Queen Christina, and Two-Faced Woman. However, she was labeled box office poison in 1938 and she subsequently retired from acting at the age of 35. She was honored with an Academy Honorary Award “for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances” in 1954.
Born Name
Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
Other Names
Greta Garbo, Kata (the nickname she got for the way she mispronounced her name for the first 10 years of her life), The Face, The Swedish Sphinx, Garbo, La Divina
Age
She was born on September 18, 1905.
Died
On April 15, 1990, Greta Garbo died at the age of 84 as a result of pneumonia and renal failure in New York City, New York, United States.
Resting Place
Skogskyrkogården Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden
Sun Sign
Virgo
Born Place
Stockholm, Sweden
Residence
She bought a 7-room apartment at 450 East 52nd Street in Manhattan, New York in 1953 and lived there until her death.
Nationality
Education
Greta Garbo graduated from school at the age of 13 and attended the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm from 1922 to 1924.
Occupation
Actor
Family
- Father – Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920) (Laborer)
- Mother – Anna Lovisa (née Johansson) (1872–1944) (Worked at a jam factory)
- Siblings – Sven Alfred (1898–1967) (Older Brother), Alva Maria (1903–1926) (Older Sister)
- Others – Johan Agaton Gustafsson (Paternal Grandfather), Lovisa Andersdotter (Paternal Grandmother), Johan August Karlsson (Maternal Grandfather), Emma Kristina Adamsdotter (Maternal Grandmother)
Net Worth
According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, her net worth was $32 million at the time of her death.
Build
Slim
Height
5 ft 6¼ in or 168 cm
Weight
50 kg or 110 lbs
Girlfriend / Boyfriend / Spouse
Greta Garbo had dated –
- Salka Viertel
- Billie Holiday
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- Ona Munson
- Louisa d’Andelot Carpenter
- Louise Prussing
- Janet Gaynor
- Olga De Rothschild
- Dita Parlo
- Marjorie Kane
- Charles Addams
- Louise Brooks
- Joseph Kennedy Jr. – RUMOR
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Cecile De Rothschild
- Russ Columbo
- Lilyan Tashman
- Sydney Guilaroff
- Claudette Colbert – RUMOR
- Cesar Romero
- William Paley
- Michael Wilding
- Charles K. Feldman
- Walter Wanger
- Leland Hayward
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Mimi Pollak
- Mauritz Stiller (1923-1924)
- Marlene Dietrich (1925) – RUMOR
- Kerry Johnson (1926)
- John Gilbert (1926-1927) – Between 1926 and 1927, Greta Garbo dated actor John Gilbert and they also lived together intermittently during that period. The duo co-starred in A Woman of Affairs (1928), Flesh and the Devil (1926), Love (1927), and Queen Christina (1933). He even proposed to her many times, with Garbo agreeing, but backing out at the last minute.
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1928)
- Fifi D’Orsay (1928)
- Nils Asther (1929) – In 1929, she went out with actor Nils Asther and they worked together in the silent drama film Wild Orchids (1929).
- Johnny Weissmuller (1930)
- Mercedes de Acosta (1931-1955)
- Max Baer (1933)
- Rouben Mamoulian (1933)
- George Brent (1934)
- Robert Taylor (1936) – RUMOR
- Leopold Stokowski (1937)
- Gaylord Hauser (1939)
- George Schlee (1940)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor (1941)
- Gilbert Roland (1943-1944)
- Cecil Beaton (1946-1972)
- Aristotle Onassis (1955)
Race / Ethnicity
White
Greta Garbo was of Swedish descent.
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Sexual Orientation
Bisexual
Distinctive Features
Eccentric personality
Greta Garbo Favorite Things
- One Of Her Favorite Actors – Gary Cooper
- Film Of Her Own – Camille (1936)
- American Director – Ernst Lubitsch
- Two Of Her Favorite Producers – Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick
Source – IMDb
Greta Garbo Facts
- She was nominated for Academy Award for “Best Actress” 4 times for her work in Anna Christie (1930), Romance (1930), Camille (1936), and Conquest (1937).
- Greta Garbo was ranked 5th on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999.
- She never married nor had any children and left her entire estate to her niece.
- She was Adolf Hitler‘s favorite female actor.
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