Happy Birthday: Greta Garbo (1905–1990)

Greta 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 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 Christie 1930 dir. Clarence Brown Cast Greta Garbo Charles Bickford Grand Hotel 1932 dir. by Edmund Goulding Garbo John Barrymore Ninotchka