Greta Garbo.

Many People of the 1920's remember the beautiful actress Greta Garbo. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1905. When she was just 14, her father died. She was devistated. She could no longer go to school because she needed to support herself, so she got a job. Her first job was a soap-lather girl in a barbershop. The founder of PUB Department store walked in and that day offered Garbo a job as a clerk at PUB. She also started modeling in the newspapers for PUB. And Eventually she stared in two short films for PUB. They were seen by famous comedy director Erik Petschler, he gave her a part in his upcoming film Peter The Tramp.

For two years Garbo studied at the Royal Dramatic Theature in Stockholm. There, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He was working as a teacher there and gave her a major role in his silent film Gosta Berlings Saga in 1924. Even though Garbo had a great career so far, a great tragedy as Garbos sister died of cancer in 1926 at the age of 23. During the 1920's Garbo was the most active in her career, being in a total of seventeen movies including The Gay Cavalier, The Scarlet Angel, The Torrent, The Temptress, Love, The Divine Woman, Wild Orchids, and The Kiss. She was active from 1920-1941 and then happily retired in 1951 as a US citizen. She from then on lived alone, no children nor husband in New York City. She died in a New York hospital in 1990 due to pneumonia and renal failure. She left her entire estate to her niece an estimated 20,000,000 dollers.

-Kara Klaczynski