The Private Life of Greta Garbo (1931)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Date:
1931
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The Private Life of Greta Garbo
Leaf #:
000155
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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llf.1 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO dinner. When she wanted a cup of coffee she used a coffee with the caffeine removed. She always left the kitchen in order after she had gotten a meal. The food was set away in the ice box. The dirty dishes were scraped, piled together, and set in the sink. If she had eaten anything sticky she would fill the dish with water. It is a queer picture — the mysterious Garbo stirring potatoes and frying a steak and then sitting down at the kitchen table to eat her solitary dinner, when all over the world there were thousands of admirers longing to set the handiwork of the greatest chefs before her. “The cats were the cause of many a sleepless night for all of us,” said Gustaf. “They slept in the house, but Garbo said they beckoned through the open windows to their gentlemen friends when they came serenading. “Many a night I’ve hunted those callers with the gun that Garbo handed me when I first started work for her. There was one big gray fellow whom Garbo had named the Lion. That cat could make the neighborhood hideous with