Vintage: Greta Garbo Portraits (1920s-1930s) | MONOVISIONS

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Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the youngest of three children of a working class family. In 1920, she took a job as a salesperson at the leading Swedish department store, PUB, a job which led to her appearance in two advertising shorts for the store. This led to her first film role in the comedy Peter the Tramp (1922). Later that year she won a full scholarship to the Academy of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the training ground for nearly every Swedish actor.