This great actresses of the XX century is dead for twenty years, but so far the films with her participation continues to haunt the imagination of viewers. Greta Garbo, faithful to his principles, no one and never gave an interview, avoiding the press. Star was already in his eighties when her beauty continues to fascinate people. Surprising fact that the last film role was played by it in 1941, but the film star admirers remember and love her still.

Rising star

Greta Garbo (Lovisa Gustafsson) was born September 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden, in a poor family, where she was the third child. Her father died when she was only fifteen years old. Greta at an early age learned how to make a living by their own labor: she dropped out of school and went to work as assistant to the barber shop, then became a salesman in Stockholm department store, parallel acting in newspaper advertising.

For the first time a bright girl with big expressive eyes noticed the famous comedy director Eric Petcher, Greta offered a small role in the film "Peter-tramp." The girl was the seventeenth year. In the credits of the film actress mentioned under its present name.

The next two years talented girl studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden's capital city. It was there that she met with the director Moritz Stiller, the author of her euphonious nickname - Greta Garbo. Stiller taught the secrets of mastery and the actress was invited to a major role in the silent film "The Saga of Yeste Berling." According to the memoirs of the actress, for a fee from the movie mother she bought a bracelet and a ring, which the poor family could never afford. Thus began a grand ascent to Olympus famous Greta Garbo, stage works that delight the world so far.

Hollywood period of life

In the life of the Nordic beauty played a fateful role of Louis B. Mayer, one of the founders of the American media company «Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer», invited Stiller and Garbo worked at his studio. So Greta got to America, where he started a real triumph ignited a new shining star on the Hollywood firmament.

Greta Garbo until 1929 starred in silent films, winning a huge love of the audience. She appeared sonorous pseudonym - Sphinx. She is one of the few actresses who easily switch to work in the sound picture. Studio executives were concerns about the perception of admirers of the young actress, who had been silent for a long time on the screen, to express thoughts and feelings with gestures, facial expressions. But the triumph was stunning: her low husky voice and slight Swedish accent in the first sound film with her participation "Anna Christie" (1930) was received with delight the audience. "Greta said," - this slogan in the credits of the new films helped win the love of admirers twenty-five stars.

Greta Garbo starred in a variety of American film director famous paintings until 1941, before the Second World War. If, during the filming of the actress something like, Greta was enough to hint at a return to Sweden, all her wishes fulfilled immediately. Garbo had planned to return to the movies after the war, but this intention was not to be had. In 1951, the actress took US citizenship in 1953 bought semikomnatnye apartments in New York in Manhattan and lived there until the end of his life, until 1990.

Personal life

Greta Garbo never married officially, but the actress novels occurred regularly. History has left for posterity scant evidence contemporaries as Greta never gave an interview to journalists, did not attend the premiere of his paintings, he did not respond to letters fans and sign autographs. "Who are all these people who write to me? I do not know them. They do not know me. What we write to each other? Why do they ask for my photo? I am not a relative of his. "

In 1927, at age 22, Greta was going to marry an American actor John Gilbert (1897-1936), which starred in two films, "Love" and "Flesh and the Devil." However, at the last moment the bride ran away from the wedding, to cancel the wedding.

There were persistent rumors of romantic links actress with the women on the list of her alleged lovers were considered actress Louise Brooks and writer Mercedes de Acosta. Greta Garbo have been periodic relationship with the British photographer Cecil Beaton homosexual, told about his published diaries.

Interesting facts from the life of Greta Garbo

"When I came to Hollywood, not even imagine what a dubious path chosen. Being a movie star - unpleasant profession, because people are not for a moment leave you alone. This is a very dangerous game "- the revelation of the great actress, an excerpt from the Swedish journalist Sven Broman" Garbo Talks ", which was published in 1991, after the death of Greta. Bromanu managed to get a meeting with the star in her American home when the actress was over eighty. This book was a real eye-opener, allowing to see the film star in a whole new light.

The debut album «Cendres De Lune» famous French singer Mylene Farmer became a song called «Greta», devoted to the world movie star. The music of the song is the voice of losing Garbo, taken from various passages of films in which the actress played.

Bright star, Greta Garbo does not leave anyone indifferent spectator, even decades later. Kept cool actress, her snobbery - the card of cinema stars. Each of its role - a masterpiece, lived a little life. "Life can be so beautiful, if you know what to do with it" - this wise aphorism itself belongs to Greta Garbo.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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