The Private Life of Greta Garbo (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Date:
1931
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Leaf #:
00060
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO 1+6 The Torrent came to the Capitol Theater in New York without the usual ballyhoo. The metropolitan critics sat spellbound as they watched this new kind of siren. Next day her name blazed in every newspaper. People crowded the theater to see her. She met a similar reception wherever the picture was shown. Greta Garbo had become an overnight sensation. The Torrent proved that Metro-Gold wynMayer had rightly cast the Swedish star as a siren, although even at the start Garbo insisted that she did not want to play “bad womens.” To this day Garbo has never had her wish of playing the part of a good little girl. Hollywood was deeply impressed with the strange beauty and singular appeal of this new foreign actress. The film colony had thought it was fed up on foreigners. But here was an entirely different type. Women as well as men spoke of her strangely seductive magnetism. Plans had already been made for Garbo to do The Temptress. Greta agreed to make it if Mr. Stiller could direct. Stiller started the picture. From the start he