Greta Garbo
This glamorous mystery woman got her start at 17. She was an actress at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic School. Mauritz Stiller, a film director, saw her there and cast her as the Countess Elizabeth Dohna. He also changed her name from Greta Gustafsson to Greta Garbo. With this name she became a star. She had an intensity and unique insight that set her apart on and off the screen. During WWII she was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathizers. The film directors tried to hide the fact that she wasn't in Hollywood. *Interestingly enough around that time Sophia Loren's mom was asked to move from Italy to Hollywood to play Greta Garbo's body double but turned down the offer.
She came back to her movie career without skipping a beat and in 1954 she received a Honorary Academy Award for her amazing on screen performances.
She was in a total of 28 films in about 20 years then disappeared from the eyes of Hollywood.
On the 23rd of September 2005, her 100th birthday, she was pictured on a 35 cent USA commemorative stamp. She might have been out of sight but was never out of mind.
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