Greta+Garbo

Greta Garbo is a Swedish actress who starred in American silent movies and films with sound. Greta was born in Stockholm. After working in a deptartment store and as a lather girl in a barbershop, she gained entrance to the Royal Dramatic Theater Academy in Stockholm. Greta starred in one Swedish and one German movie, after that MGM looked to sign a contract with her. She is considered aone of the most glamourous Hollywood film stars to have ever lived. The Guinness Book of World Records called her, "the most beautiful woman who ever lived." Greta Garbo was quite the diva to work with, threatening to go back to Sweden if she did not have her way. She enjoyed living a secluded life and it was quite difficult for the papparazi to find her. She retired to an apartment in New York City, where she died at the age of eighty-four.

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