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Greta Garbo [a] (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; [b] 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American [1] actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic and somber screen persona, her film portrayals of tragic ...
John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle; July 10, 1897 [1] – January 9, 1936) was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover".
Resurrection Statue at the Holy Cross Gravestone of Greta Garbo Uppståndelsekapellet (the Resurrection Chapel), designed by Sigurd Lewerentz Skogskapellet cemetery chapel, designed by Gunnar Asplund Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in Enskede in the southern part of ...
Bergman received a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic Training Academy, where Greta Garbo had some years earlier earned a similar scholarship. After several months, she was given a part in a new play, Ett Brott (A Crime), written by Sigfrid Siwertz. This was "totally against procedure" at the school, where girls were expected to ...
Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981) [1] was a Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid-1950s, known as "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over seventy feature films, sixteen of which were produced in the silent era.
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 by Walter Wanger and directed by Rouben Mamoulian.It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together.
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Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 8 November 1928) was a Finnish film director of Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller was a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing and directing many short films from 1912.