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THE MAN
IN
GARBO'S PAST
The true story of Garbo's First love and the inspiration that guided her to fame !
by AL SHERMAN
Countless Stories Have been penned about Greta Garbo. Page after page of comment, factual and fictional, about the glamorous one have filled periodicals of all sorts and descriptions. By this time the lad — or lass — who cannot give you the "inside" facts about Garbo's past, present or future just isn't in the thick of things. In fact, as a conversationalist he's on a par with the poker player who wandered into a bridge experts' convention by mistake.
But in all these stories one hears little or nothing of Carl Brisson. We know of Mauritz Stiller. We all have heard how this director nurtured the genius of Garbo to bring it to its full flowering under the warming sun of Hollywood. But of Carl Brisson? Those who have wandered abroad and knew of his fame as an actor in Europe's halls can recall his name. They know he has been signed by Paramount for American pictures and will be seen in Murder at the Vanities. But they seldom, if ever, linked his name with Garbo.
Yet Carl Brisson is the man who, with Stiller, brought the romance of fame into the shopgirl's life. He, alone of the many who claim a share in the success story of Garbo, has been the primary reason why the Gorgeous Greta is the one conspicuous world figure in the cinema of today.
JUNE, 1934
—Ray Jams Day after day Greta Garbo used to gaze with enraptured romantic longing upon Carl Brisson. Her idol is making his American screen debut in Murder at the Vanities
It is a romantic story — a tale of pathos and cheer; of devotion and honest affection.
Out of the past, a strange, romantic past, has come Carl Brisson, the one who first recognized the talent hidden deep within the nervous, spindling milliner's apprentice of Stockholm. It was he, who by his understanding, tact and devotion, helped the Greta Gustafson of those days to become the glamorous, glittering Greta Garbo of today. And he, again, will be with the Greta who once listened, shining-eyed, eagerly, as he unfolded the mysteries of acting before her rapt gaze.
The story becomes doubly interesting. For today Greta is seen gazing, with admiring eyes, at the Rouben Mamoulian whom she calls "Mamoo" when they are alone
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