Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an honorary one in 1954 for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Sdermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. She was the third and youngest child of Anna Lovisa a housewife who later worked at a jam factoryand Karl Alfred Gustafsson , a laborer. Garbo had an older brother, Sven Alfred , and an older sister, Alva Maria .

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