No star has ever retired as successfully, completely, and without fuss as Greta Garbo. This Swedish-American icon of the silver screen didn’t even make a formal announcement when she decided to hang ...

When Garbo arrived at Hollywood in the mid-1920s, she had slimmed down, losing as much as 20 pounds, because Mayer and other producers considered her too fat. They also thought that at 5 feet, 7 ...

Greta Garbo arrived in Hollywood as an unknown, unsophisticated actress from Sweden and left 16 years later a rich woman. “I have made enough faces,” said the Golden Age star, who successfully ...

After her retirement from the cinema in 1943, she 'disappeared' from the face of the earth. The media portrayed her as a recluse, but 'The Divine' knew how to enjoy life with friends like Onassis or ...

Greta Garbo chose to never marry, but she sure loved to get around. The silver-screen icon went out with men and women, gays and straights, singletons and married people, and she did it all on her own ...

In the movie “Grand Hotel,” Greta Garbo uttered the line that came to define her: “I want to be alone.” But if that’s what she really wanted, she should have never come to Florida. Eighty years ago ...

Greta Garbo famously said "I want to be let alone" on the silver screen – but her great-nephew insisted that in real life, the Hollywood recluse wasn’t so isolated. "I wouldn’t call her a recluse," ...

Coming a century after the Swedish actress’ film debut, Robert Gottlieb’s biography of Greta Garbo is a classic movie lover’s dream. Enriching his insightful reconsideration of Garbo’s life and career ...