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 #:
000265
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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251 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GRETA GARBO was one of her most ardent fans. That he had come to Hollywood because he wanted to be near her. She didn’t know that he had left the New York stage, where he had made good as leading man to Peggy Wood and Jane Cowl, to enter the films, hoping and praying that sometime he might get into a Garbo picture. She did not know that after two years of small parts here and there Hollywood had almost beaten him. She only knew that here was the type of man she needed to play the role of the clergyman who falls a prey to the charms of the notorious opera singer in Romance. It had been days since Gordon had made the test for the Norma Shearer picture. He had given up hope of hearing from it when he was called out to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. When he was told that he had been cast as lead for Greta Garbo in Romance he thought there had been a mistake. When he heard that Garbo herself had chosen him he could scarcely believe his own ears. There probably isn’t an actor in Hollywood, even a star, who wouldn’t be thrilled to get in a