Biographies: Greta Garbo - Actor

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Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress, born in Stockholm, on September 18, 1905, as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson. She died on April 15, 1990, in New York City, after suffering from severe pneumonia. Greta Garbo won an Academy Honorary Award in 1955. Garbo started her career as a model, then appeared in commercials, after which she got a small role in the film Luffar-Petter (1922), which helped her get a scholarship to a Swedish drama school. She soon got a leading role in The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924). She was signed on by MGM, and appeared in her first American film Torrent (1926). Before long, Garbo made a name for herself in Hollywood, and starred in many films, such as Mata Hari (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), and Anna Karenina (1935), then showed her comedic side in Ninotchka (1939). She appeared in her last film two years later, Two-Faced Woman (1941), after which she retired for good.

• 26 August 2021
• Dalia Saad