MGM history of Greta Garbo ignores her European career

"The MGM history of Garbo pretty much ignores her European career." said Scott Reisfield, great-nephew of Greta Garbo. "It was her decision to present her as an actress that they had discovered and created, that they really didn't put much into their biography about the European life of the woman that she was from Europe. But Garbo came to the United States as a well trained European actress. She had grown up in Stockholm and earned a scholarship to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. And her class was small - it was eight people basically. She was a part on an interesting group. Her class included a famous reader's director Alf Sjöberg, who was a life time friend, who was very well known as a teacher of acting to other actors and actresses and two actors who had decades of careers on stage and in film and in television in Sweden. So her class was a very interesting group by itself and accomplished a lot she was perhaps the most famous member of it."

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[MARTINKUK1]

@Politeama

What exactly do you mean. Because I think that Mr Reisfield nicely presents the beginning of Garbo's career in MGM. GOSTA BERLINGS SAGA and THE JOYLESS STREET (the two films she had made in Europe before coming to the USA) were very important films, quite thought provoking and her acting was brilliant. Of course, the standards were different but what Garbo, in fact, experienced in Hollywood at the beginning was 'on the verge' of escaping back to her beloved Sweden.

[TheNaomiengland]

You have the same last name as Madonna!

[deketelaere]

I'am fan of Greta Garbo. It's for me the most beautifull actress of the world.Much more than the actress, it's the human being which I admire, she is a model for all. I regret only one things, it's not to have been able to meet her, it was my dream for the rest of my life. I regret too, it's not to take part in this exposure and to have been able to meet you... perhaps a day.

Thank you Mr Reisfield.

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