"Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her image. On 6 April 2011, Sveriges Riksbank announced that Garbo's portrait was to be featured on the 100-krona banknote, beginning in 2014–2015. Author Ernest Hemingway provided an imaginary portrayal of Garbo in his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls: Informational notes Citations Greta Garbo Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her ""luminous and"
"Kristina Wayborn Britt-Inger Johansson, known professionally as Kristina Wayborn (born 24 September 1950), is a Swedish actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Småland, Sweden. She was Miss Sweden in 1970, and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. She was also selected as Miss Scandinavia 1971. Wayborn portrayed screen legend Greta Garbo in the television movie ""The Silent Lovers"" (1980), an episode of the miniseries Moviola, which brought her to the attention of the producers of the James Bond films. She was"
"Salka Viertel Salka Viertel (15 June 1889 – 20 October 1978) was an Austrian actress and screenwriter. Viertel was born Salomea Sara Steuermann in Sambor, a city then in the province of Galicia, which was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but today is in western Ukraine. Viertel was under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937, and co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo including ""Queen Christina"" (1933) and ""Anna Karenina"" (1935). She also played opposite Garbo in MGM's German-language version of ""Anna Christie"" in 1930. Viertel's father, Joseph Steuermann, was a"
"Strangers"" was published. Salka Viertel died in Klosters, Switzerland, on 20 October 1978, aged 89. Salka Viertel Salka Viertel (15 June 1889 – 20 October 1978) was an Austrian actress and screenwriter. Viertel was born Salomea Sara Steuermann in Sambor, a city then in the province of Galicia, which was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but today is in western Ukraine. Viertel was under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937, and co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo including ""Queen Christina"" (1933) and ""Anna Karenina"" (1935). She also played opposite Garbo"
"in 1938. Her career revived upon her turn to comedy in ""Ninotchka"" (1939), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination, but after the failure of ""Two-Faced Woman"" (1941), she retired from the screen, at the age of 35, after acting in twenty-eight films. From then on, Garbo declined all opportunities to return to the screen. Shunning publicity, she led a private life. Garbo also became an art collector in her later life; her collection, including works from painters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, and Kees van Dongen, was worth millions of dollars when she died. Greta Lovisa Gustafsson"
"Mauritz Stiller Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 18 November 1928) was a Finnish-Swedish film director, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller had been a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing and directing many short films from 1912. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer invited him to Hollywood as a director, he arrived with his new discovery Greta Gustafsson, whose screen name Greta Garbo is believed to have been his suggestion. After frequent disagreements with studio executives at MGM and Paramount Pictures, Stiller returned to Sweden, where he died soon afterwards. Moshe Stiller was"
"Greta Gynt Greta Gynt (15 November 1916 – 2 April 2000), born Margrethe Woxholt, was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. She is remembered for her starring roles in the British classic films ""The Dark Eyes of London"", ""Mr. Emmanuel"", ""Take My Life"", ""Dear Murderer"" and ""The Ringer"". She played lead roles in minor British films in the 1930s and early 40s, and by the late 40s she appeared in major films. The Rank Organisation tried to market her as the British Jean Harlow. She also attempted an unsuccessful career in the US, absurdly miscast in MGM's ""Soldiers Three"" as"
"and in 1953, a passport application by Salka to visit him was denied as a result of her alleged Communist sympathies. Salka eventually moved to Switzerland to live with her son, Peter, and his wife Deborah Kerr. The Swedish actress Greta Garbo was a frequent guest and first met her lover Mercedes de Acosta at a party at the house. Salka Viertel's emigre years in California were documented in her 1969 memoir ""The Kindness of Strangers"". In May 2015 the house was put up for sale for $4.595 million, it was the first time the house had been for sale"
"following year from pleurisy at the age of 45. He was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Stiller's contribution to the motion picture industry has since been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1713 Vine Street. In Kristianstad, a monument was erected in his honor. Originally, his star on the Walk of Fame was erroneously listed as ""Maurice Diller"" and wasn't corrected until the late 1980s. Mauritz Stiller Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 18 November 1928) was a Finnish-Swedish film director, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her"
"Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Quirentia Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974) was a Swedish-born American actress who achieved success in American silent movies. She predates fellow Swedish born actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. Anna Q. Nilsson was born in Ystad, Skåne County, Sweden in 1888. Her middle name, ""Quirentia"", is derived from her date of birth, March 30, Saint Quirinius' Day. When she was 8 years old her father, Per Nilsson, got a job at the local sugar factory in Hasslarp, a small community outside Helsingborg in Sweden where she spent most of her school years. She"
"Greta Gerwig Greta Celeste Gerwig (; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, writer, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films by Joe Swanberg, some of which she co-wrote and co-directed. Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including ""Greenberg"" (2010), ""Frances Ha"" (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and ""Mistress America"" (2015). She has also performed in ""Damsels in Distress"" (2011), ""To Rome with Love"" (2012), ""Jackie"" (2016), and ""20th"
"Inge Feltrinelli Inge Feltrinelli (née Schönthal; 24 November 1930 – 20 September 2018) was a German-born Italian photographer and director, who with her son Carlo ran the Italian publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore. Inge Schönthal was born on 24 November 1930, before her father, who was of Jewish descent, moved to the Netherlands in 1938. Her Jewish background led to her expulsion from a Gymnasium (secondary school) in Göttingen. After World War II ended, she began her career as photographer in Hamburg. In 1952, during a long stay in New York City, she was able to photograph Greta Garbo, Elia"
"Nils Asther Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981) was a Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid-1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called ""the male Greta Garbo"". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 of which were produced in the silent era. He is mainly remembered today for two silent films he made with his fellow Swede, Greta Garbo, and the pre-code interracial love affair in ""The Bitter Tea of General Yen"". Asther was the son of Anton Asther and Hilda Åkerlund. Although his parents"
"West"" by Richard Nelson, Silvia Dreik, a theatre critic from the ""Los Angeles Times"" said ""...Larisa Eryomina is an actress of a caliber of Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman."" Larisa Eryomina Larisa Eryomina-Wain (born September 19, 1950, Moldavia) is a stage and screen actress, particularly in Soviet films of the 1970s. She left the Soviet Union in 1979, to raise her family and pursue a career in Hollywood. She has acted in dozens of films, television programs and stage productions. She has also taught acting and directing extensively. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children."
"Anna Sten Anna Sten (; born Anna Petrovna Fesak, December 3, 1908November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in Soviet Union before travelling to Germany, where she starred in several films. Her performances were noticed by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to the United States with the aim of creating a new screen personality to rival Greta Garbo. After a few unsuccessful films, Goldwyn released her from her contract. She continued to act occasionally until her final film appearance in 1962. Sten was born December 3, 1908 in"
"of looking back on something in memory and displaying things as they are, stripped of any sort of showiness. Gerwig has been in a relationship with writer-director Noah Baumbach since late 2011. Greta Gerwig Greta Celeste Gerwig (; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, writer, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films by Joe Swanberg, some of which she co-wrote and co-directed. Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including ""Greenberg"" (2010), ""Frances"
"Greta Chi Greta Chi (born Chi Ke Ping; Copenhagen, Denmark), is an actress who was active in the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. The daughter of a Chinese diplomat father and a German mother, she had some cachet as an ""exotic"" starlet in the 1950s and '60s. She appeared in supporting parts in lower-budget U.S. and foreign movies, as well as some television shows. Although she had only one starring role in the movie Lisette (Fall Girl) in 1961 with John Agar, she is best known for her role as Ling-Ling, a Siamese cat transformed into a human by"
"Hedmark, Norway. Greta Nissen Greta Nissen (30 January 1906 – 15 May 1988) was a Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Oslo, Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. She debuted as a solo ballerina on the National Theatre in 1922. She toured in Norway and participated in several Danish films. Nissen made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She had studied ballet with Mikhail Fokine. In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George"
"a platinum blonde with made-up bosom, and went back to Britain afterwards. Her most famous films are the 1939 Bela Lugosi film ""The Dark Eyes of London"" as the tough heroine, heroic as an underground leader in ""Tomorrow We Live"", touching as Jewish Elsie Silver in ""Mr. Emmanuel"" (1944), forceful as loyal wife proving her husband's innocence in the thriller ""Take My Life"", a promiscuous murderess in ""Dear Murderer"", both in 1947, and as a nightclub singer singing ""The Shady Lady Spiv"" in ""Easy Money"" (1948). Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. As a child, she moved"
"While already a well established popular actor in Sweden and much of continental Europe, Lars Hanson gained greater international recognition for his role as the title character in the 1923 Stiller film ""Gösta Berlings saga"" (English: ""The Story of Gösta Berling)"", which featured a young Mauritz Stiller protégé named Greta Garbo in one of her first major appearances on screen as well as film stage actress Gerda Lundequist. At the request of American actress Lillian Gish, Hanson arrived in Hollywood, California in 1926 (the same year as Garbo) to star opposite Gish in the film version of ""The Scarlet Letter"""
"by Renoir, Rouault, Kandinsky, Bonnard, and Jawlensky. Her art collection was worth millions when she died in 1990. On 9 February 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States and, in 1953, bought a seven-room apartment at 450 East 52nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, where she lived for the rest of her life. On 13 November 1963, just nine days before the assassination of President Kennedy, Garbo was a dinner guest at the White House. She spent the night at the Washington, D.C. home of philanthropist Florence Mahoney. Garbo's niece Gray Reisfield told museum specialist James"
"Greta Loebl Greta Loebl Schreyer (July 28, 1917 – October 3, 2005), born Greta Loebl, was an Austrian-American, Jewish jewelry designer and painter. She survived the Holocaust and died in New York City. Greta Loebl was born in Vienna, Austria and followed in her father's footsteps at 18 to become a master goldsmith. Due to the Nazi occupation of Austria, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country in September 1938. While in Paris, France, they met a wealthy American who sponsored their affidavit for immigration to the U.S. They stayed in Paris until their visa applications to"
"from Friedmann's Budapest street nickname ""Cápa"" which means ""Shark"" in Hungarian. The secret did not last long, but Friedmann kept the more commercial name ""Capa"" for his own name, while Pohorylle adopted the professional name of ""Gerda Taro"" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto and Swedish actress Greta Garbo. The two worked together to cover the events surrounding the coming-to-power of the Popular Front in 1930s France. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Taro travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to cover the events with Capa and David ""Chim"" Seymour. Taro acquired the nickname of ""La pequeña rubia"" (""The"
"blinking her eyes, so that her face could be a ""blank sheet of paper"" and every member of the audience could write the ending of the film themselves. Amusingly, this shot also contains one of the greatest continuity errors in movie history: The wind blowing Garbo's hair is moving in the ""opposite"" direction from the wind blowing the ship's sails. Queen Christina of Sweden (Greta Garbo) is very devoted to her country and the welfare of her people. As queen, Christina favors peace for Sweden. At one point in the film, she argues for an end to the Thirty Years'"
"January 2018, Thyssen died of pneumonia at her home in Manhattan, aged 90. Feature Films Short Films Greta Thyssen Greta Thyssen (born Grethe Karen Thygesen; 30 March 1927 – 6 January 2018) was a Danish film actress and former model, long-resident in the United States. Born in Hareskovby, Denmark, she appeared in films and television series between 1956 and 1967. Thyssen arrived in the United States after winning the Miss Denmark crown in 1952. She attempted to follow in the footsteps of the reigning blonde sex symbols Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield by forging a movie career. She was Monroe's"
"Greta Berlin Greta K. Berlin (born April 6, 1941) is an American pro-Palestinian activist. She has been a spokesperson for the Free Gaza Movement (FGM), which she co-founded in 2006. Berlin was born Greta Anne Hughes on April 6, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four children of Arthur George Hughes and Barbara Esther Whan Hughes. She graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, one of the first two girls to do so. Upon entering graduate school at the University of Illinois in 1963, Greta met her first husband, Ribhi, who is a Palestinian refugee from Safed. They"
"under his guidance, became the first star to win two consecutive Academy Awards as Best Actress. After Thalberg's sudden death during production of ""The Good Earth"" (1937), her film career went into decline from being given a string of bad parts, and she gave up her film career. Rainer commented years later, ""His dying was a terrible shock to us. He was young and ever so able. Had it not been that he died, I think I may have stayed much longer in films."" In 1925, a young Greta Garbo, then twenty, and unable to speak any English, was brought"
"Greta Fahlcrantz Greta Amalia Fahlcrantz Lindberg (Stockholm, April 3, 1889 – Stockholm, March 13, 1978) was a Swedish painter and sculptor. Daughter of actor Herman Grip and Ada Fallstedt, Fahlcrantz studied with Carl Wilhelmson and married lawyer Hugo Fahlcrant in 1912. The marriage failed in 1919, the same year in which she began study with André Lhote. In 1921 she married Helge Lindberg, with whom she had three children. She lived in Uppsala and Gothenburg, and was active as a teacher as well as an artist. Eventually she moved back to Stockholm. During her career Fahlcrantz was active primarily as"
"Greta Schröder Greta Schröder (27 June 1892 – 8 June 1980) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and Count Orlok's victim in the 1922 silent film ""Nosferatu"". In the fictionalized 2000 film, ""Shadow of the Vampire"", she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of ""Nosferatu"", but in fact she was little known. The bulk of her career was during the 1920s, and she continued to act well into the 1950s, but by the 1930s her roles had diminished to only occasional appearances. Following a failed marriage"
"Kaaren Verne Kaaren Verne (6 April 1918 – 23 December 1967), was a German-born actress. Sometimes billed as Karen Verne, she was originally a stage actress and member of the Berlin State Theatre. Verne was born in Berlin and christened Ingeborg Greta Katerina Marie-Rose Klinckerfuss, Related to the Bechstein family, her first marriage took place when she was 17. She fled the Nazis in 1938 and made her English language film début in the 1939 British film ""Ten Days in Paris"". When British film production stopped during World War II, she emigrated to the United States. At first, the studios"
"Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish climate activist. She is known for striking outside the Swedish parliament building to raise climate change activism, speaking at TEDxStockholm, and addressing the COP24 UN climate conference. Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003. Her mother is Malena Ernman, a Swedish opera singer. Thunberg's father is Svante Thunberg, who is an actor named after Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius is an ancestor of her father, and won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for calculating the effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her grandfather is Olof Thunberg, an actor and a"
"of a Garbo production was Greta Garbo."" She was portrayed by Betty Comden in the 1984 film ""Garbo Talks"". The film concerns a dying Garbo fan (Anne Bancroft) whose last wish is to meet her idol. Her son (played by Ron Silver) sets about trying to get Garbo to visit his mother at the hospital. Garbo is the subject of several documentaries, including four made in the United States between 1990 and 2005: Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1930, a performer could receive a single nomination for their work in more than"
"Patricia Harty (actress) Patricia Harty (born November 5, 1941 in Washington, D.C.), also known professionally as Trisha Hart, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, ""Occasional Wife"" (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, ""Blondie"" (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, ""The Bob Crane Show"" (1975) as Ellie Wilcox and ""Herbie, the Love Bug"" (1982) as Susan MacLane. She also appeared on Broadway in ""Fiorello!"" and ""Sail Away"". Harty married ""Occasional Wife"" co-star Michael Callan in June 1968. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had been associate producer on ""The"