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Something wrong?She walked off the screen in 1941 and never came back. For fifty years after, Garbo refused every offer, every interview, every chance to explain why Hollywood's most magnetic face had simply chosen silence.
A life in dates
The South Bank ShowSeries1976
That's Entertainment, Part IIFilm, (archive footage)1974
Spécial cinémaSeries1955“I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”In their words24 January 1955Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (Doubleday, 1955) and "To Be Herself", Life (January 24, 1955; Vol. 38, No. 4), p. 113; as the Russian
MGM ParadeSeries, 19551954Academy Honorary AwardAward1941
Two-Faced WomanFilm, Karin Borg Blake1937Litteris et ArtibusAward
ConquestFilm, 1937Countess Marie Walewska1935
Anna KareninaFilm, Anna Karenina1932
As You Desire MeFilm, Zara, a.k.a. Maria1930
Anna ChristieFilm, Anna Christie1928“I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?”In their wordsScreen Secrets: Greta Garbo Breaks her Silence (1928)
A Woman of AffairsFilm, 1928Diana Merrick1926
Flesh and the DevilFilm, Felicitas1924
The Saga of Gösta BerlingFilm, Elizabeth Dohna1905Born18 September 1905Also in Deutsch
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, I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.
I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?
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SpotifyFilmography 40
GGGarbo: Where Did You Go?
PQPrejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
SHScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
MMMy Scientology Movie
FGFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
VIVito
HY1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
THThou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
CWComplicated Women
TMThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American MoviesTIThat's Entertainment, Part II
MAMarlowe
TEThe Happy EndingTWTwo-Faced Woman
ASA New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
NINinotchkaCOConquest
CACamilleAKAnna Karenina
QCQueen Christina
TVThe Painted Veil
GHGrand HotelAMAs You Desire Me
SLSusan Lenox
MHMata Hari
INInspirationACAnna Christie
RORomance
ACAnna Christie
TKThe Kiss
WOWild Orchids
TLThe Mysterious LadyAAA Woman of Affairs
TWThe Divine Woman
LOLoveFDFlesh and the Devil
TTThe Temptress
TOTorrent
JSJoyless StreetTBThe Saga of Gösta Berling90 credits on file
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SY1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden YearTSThe South Bank ShowSCSpécial cinémaMPMGM ParadeAwards
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Born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Sweden, she broke through in the 1924 film The Saga of Gösta Berling, catching the eye of MGM's Louis B. Mayer, who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. Her third American film, Flesh and the Devil (1926), made her an international star, and by 1928's A Woman of Affairs she was MGM's top draw, eclipsing Lillian Gish. The 1930 transition to sound - marketed with "Garbo talks!" - brought an Oscar nomination for Anna Christie, and her reign continued through Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and what many consider her finest work, Camille (1936). Labeled box office poison in 1938, she rebounded with the comedy Ninotchka (1939), but Two-Faced Woman flopped in 1941 and she walked away for good at thirty-six. Four years before her death in 1990, she finally said it plain: "I was tired of Hollywood. I did not like my work."
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