Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990
Regarded by many as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time. Known for her often melancholic and somber persona and for portraying tragic characters in many subtle and understated performances.
Ranked fifth by the American Film Institute 1999 list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Here at IngloriousColour we have made her our first Icon.
Greta started her career in her native Sweden in the 1924 film The Saga of Gosta Berling, to great acclaim. This brought her to the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Louis B. Mayer who brought her to Hollywood and cast her in the 1926 film Torrent. However it would be her third performance in 1927s Flesh and the Devil that catapulted her into international stardom, she would go on to become MGMs highest box-office stars with 1928s A Woman of Affairs. And we are still in the silent era!
Unlike many of her contemporaries she was able to make the leap from silent film star and have a successful career in the ‘Talkies’.
Her first ‘Talkie’ came in 1930s Anna Christie, an adaption of Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play in which she utters the now famous line "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby."
Her final film at the age of just thirty-six was the Two-Faced Woman, a critical bomb at the time but a commercial success. Would these critics have been so harsh had they known it was to be her last film, who knows. In a career spanning just sixteen years she made twenty-eight feature films, and remains to this day a true icon of of Hollywood.
"If you ask me my favorite actress of all time, I will tell you that it is Greta Garbo. She shared her emotions with the camera and the audience. They were very truthful emotions. To my mind, she was an early practitioner of the Method. She felt everything she did and had the intelligence to go with it. . . . And that is the key for the audience. If they believe it, then they’ve spent a couple of good hours at the cinema.”Gregory Peck
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990
Regarded by many as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time. Known for her often melancholic and somber persona and for portraying tragic characters in many subtle and understated performances.
Ranked fifth by the American Film Institute 1999 list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Here at IngloriousColour we have made her our first Icon.
Greta started her career in her native Sweden in the 1924 film The Saga of Gosta Berling, to great acclaim. This brought her to the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Louis B. Mayer who brought her to Hollywood and cast her in the 1926 film Torrent. However it would be her third performance in 1927s Flesh and the Devil that catapulted her into international stardom, she would go on to become MGMs highest box-office stars with 1928s A Woman of Affairs. And we are still in the silent era!
Unlike many of her contemporaries she was able to make the leap from silent film star and have a successful career in the ‘Talkies’.
Her first ‘Talkie’ came in 1930s Anna Christie, an adaption of Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play in which she utters the now famous line "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby."
Her final film at the age of just thirty-six was the Two-Faced Woman, a critical bomb at the time but a commercial success. Would these critics have been so harsh had they known it was to be her last film, who knows. In a career spanning just sixteen years she made twenty-eight feature films, and remains to this day a true icon of of Hollywood.
"If you ask me my favorite actress of all time, I will tell you that it is Greta Garbo. She shared her emotions with the camera and the audience. They were very truthful emotions. To my mind, she was an early practitioner of the Method. She felt everything she did and had the intelligence to go with it. . . . And that is the key for the audience. If they believe it, then they’ve spent a couple of good hours at the cinema.”Gregory Peck
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990
Regarded by many as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time. Known for her often melancholic and somber persona and for portraying tragic characters in many subtle and understated performances.
Ranked fifth by the American Film Institute 1999 list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Here at IngloriousColour we have made her our first Icon.
Greta started her career in her native Sweden in the 1924 film The Saga of Gosta Berling, to great acclaim. This brought her to the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Louis B. Mayer who brought her to Hollywood and cast her in the 1926 film Torrent. However it would be her third performance in 1927s Flesh and the Devil that catapulted her into international stardom, she would go on to become MGMs highest box-office stars with 1928s A Woman of Affairs. And we are still in the silent era!
Unlike many of her contemporaries she was able to make the leap from silent film star and have a successful career in the ‘Talkies’.
Her first ‘Talkie’ came in 1930s Anna Christie, an adaption of Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play in which she utters the now famous line "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby."
Her final film at the age of just thirty-six was the Two-Faced Woman, a critical bomb at the time but a commercial success. Would these critics have been so harsh had they known it was to be her last film, who knows. In a career spanning just sixteen years she made twenty-eight feature films, and remains to this day a true icon of of Hollywood.
"If you ask me my favorite actress of all time, I will tell you that it is Greta Garbo. She shared her emotions with the camera and the audience. They were very truthful emotions. To my mind, she was an early practitioner of the Method. She felt everything she did and had the intelligence to go with it. . . . And that is the key for the audience. If they believe it, then they’ve spent a couple of good hours at the cinema.”Gregory Peck
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