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 #:
000179
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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165 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO picture stars frequented. She didn’t like to dance. ‘What fun is there dining in a room crowded with a lot of strangers?’ she would ask. ‘In Sweden friends meet to be sociable over a bottle of champagne or a glass of wine or beer. Here people try to look as if they were having a lot of fun stealing a drink from a bottle hidden under the tablecloth. Then they have to sit there and pretend they are drinking iced tea or ginger ale. It is all so silly. I much prefer to eat in my own home.’ “We never knew Garbo to be really ill, but she often took slight colds. And how she hated them. She was always spraying her throat and nose and trying to toughen herself with her swimming and sun baths. “The minute she felt a cold coming on, she would make an appointment for treatment in a Hollywood Turkish bath where the water came hot from a natural mineral spring. “No one ever seemed to recognize her down there, and she went often. She often took the massages and baths when she didn’t have a cold, especially if she was tired and nervous.