Happy Birthday: Greta Garbo (1905–1990)

gretagarboGreta Garbo (1905–1990)

Born: September 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died: April 15, 1990 (age 84) in New York City, New York, USA

[in 1932, about her recreational preferences] If I needed recreation, I liked to be out of doors: to trudge about in a boy’s coat and boy’s shoes; to ride horseback, or shoot craps with the stable boys, or watch the sun set in a blaze of glory over the Pacific Ocean. You see, I am still a bit of a tomboy. Most hostesses disapprove of this trousered attitude to life, so I do not inflict upon them.

The Joyless StreetThe Joyless Street
1925
dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Starring
Werner Krauss
Asta Nielsen
Garbo
Flesh and the Devil
1926
dir. Clarence Brown
starring
Garbo
John Gilbert
ANNA CHRISTIEAnna Christie
1930
dir. Clarence Brown
Cast
Greta Garbo
Charles Bickford
Grand HotelGrand Hotel
1932
dir. by Edmund Goulding
Garbo
John Barrymore
NINOTCHKA POSTERNinotchka
1939
dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Starring
Garbo
Elvyn Douglas
MOVIE POSTERCAMILLE
1936
dir. George Cukor
Stars:
Greta Garbo
Robert Taylor