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 #:
000166
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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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO 152 Four days after John’s arrival in Hollywood, as contract player for Famous Players, he and his wife were invited to attend a dinner party at Pickfair. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were entertaining for Prince George of England. John and Prince George had lived in the same fraternity house while they were attending Eton College. It was quite natural that the hostess of Pickfair should include among her dinner guests a fraternity brother of the Prince, when she learned there was one in the film colony. At that time Jack Gilbert and Greta were still going about together. Jack had persuaded Garbo to allow him to escort her to this party. John and his wife were presented to the Swedish star during the course of the evening. Garbo was immediately attracted to John’s foreign wife, an Austrian girl who spoke German fluently, and invited her to call. That was the beginning of a friendship which lasted until Mrs. Loder returned to Europe a short time ago to visit her family in Berlin. Loder said: “During the evening at Pickfair we found that Garbo was very fond of Emil Jannings and his