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The Great Garbo started life as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden. Before her big break in silent film, she held jobs first as a shampoo girl at a barber shop, then as a clerk at a department store. She was one of the few actresses able to successfully make the switchover from silent films to “talkies”, though her first talkie, which won her an Academy Award and familiarized the world with her low, husky voice was one she could never make herself like. Garbo quickly became a legend, albeit a cranky one. Her final film was a complete box office flop, and because of this, she chose to live out the rest of her life in relative seclusion in New York. However, her films, both vocal and silent, are still loved enough to pack the home theater furniture used by movie buffs today.

Greta Garbo is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholms Ian, Sweden.

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