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 #:
000252
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:
July 04, 2024
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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO 238 musical review. After some dance music a man and woman commenced gossiping about Garbo dancing with Prince Sigvard. The skit ended with, “But be careful, Garbo. There is a dayto-morrow coming.” Sorensen told how he had written a song about Garbo that was sung in a musical review in Stockholm. He wrote it while she was attending a dinner party to which he had not been invited. When he took it over to the stage manager of the theater and told him that Garbo and a party would be in the audience that evening, the manager had the song sung that night, much to Garbo’s amusement. “I thought the party would never break up,” said Gustaf. “Suddenly Garbo stood up, as she often did, saying in Swedish, ‘Ga nu med sie ,’ which means, ‘Out of here now, all of you.’ “Garbo had planned to go out with Feyder New Year’s Eve, and Sigrid and I were to have that evening to ourselves. But something must have gone wrong. We left the house about five o’clock, and Garbo was in her room in bed. She was still in bed when we got in about two o’clock