In the fall of 2023, movie fans celebrate the 118th birthday of the queen of Hollywood, actress Greta Garbo, who taught women to dye their hair ash blonde and wear trousers.
Greta Gustafsson, a saleswoman in a supermarket in Stockholm, starred in a commercial, and was noticed by Swedish director Moritz Stiller. He forced the girl to lose weight, taught her how to dress and stay in public, and it was he who came up with the pseudonym Garbo. With him, Greta moved to Hollywood, became a silent movie star, and then easily switched to sound and in the thirties was at the top of success.
She became one of the first actresses who began dictating their contract terms to producers and earning huge fees.
At the age of 36, she played her last film role and closed herself off from society.
Garbo traveled a lot, had affairs with famous men and women. And in proud solitude she lived to the age of 84, gaining fame as the most mysterious actress in history.
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