Greta Garbo
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Greta Garbo was a Swedish and American film actress. She was a leading star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she is known
Garbo in Inspiration (1931)
Ten-year-old Garbo in 1915
The approved application by Greta's mother to allow her name change from Gustafsson to Garbo.
Garbo in her first leading role in the Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924) with Lars Hanson
Mauritz Stiller
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Mauritz Stiller was a Swedish-Finnish film director of Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller was a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing an
Greta Garbo
…Luffar-Petter. From 1922 to 1924, she studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm. She was recruited in 1924 by the Finnish director Mauritz Stiller to play a principal part in his film The Saga of Gösta Berling, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, which also…
Stiller in 1927
Greta Garbo and Stiller aboard SS Drottningholm in 1925 en route to the United States