Greta Garbo - Candids 1930s

Candid Pictures 1930's

1930 Candids

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1931 Candids

New York/USA, 1931

1932 Candids

USA, July 29, 1932

Garbo on board of the Gripsholm.

She was on her way to Sweden. Her first trip to Sweden since 1928.

Sweden/Stockholm, August 8, 1932

Garbo arrived in Sweden

Greta arrived in Goteborg Harbor (Sweden). She was met on board by her brother Sven Gustafson he later accompanied her.

Sweden/Stockholm, August 8, 1932

Garbo's impromptu press conference

Press conference aboard the Gripsholm in Goteborg Harbor/Sweden. Greta surprised the reporters on the customs launch by agreeing to meet them in the smoking salon. She was unprepared for the barrage of questions.

Read more about her press conferences: HERE!

Sweden/Stockholm, 1932

Greta and Countess Wachtmeister

Sweden/Stockholm, 1932

Sweden/Stockholm, 1932

Garbo leaving Sweden and returning to USA.

She was going to sign a new movie contract with MGM.

1933 Candids

1933

Garbo and Mercedes de Acosta

1934 Candids

(in treatment)

1935 Candids

June 4, 1935

USA and Sweden, 1935

Garbo on her way to Sweden

Sweden, 1935

1936 Candids

Chicago/USA, May 1936

USA, June 1936

Press conference aboard the Gripsholm

On Board of the Gripsholm (Swedish Motor Ship), New York, June 1936. The reporters, were surprisingly invited into the Ships Smokin Room. Garbo agreed to meet them and answer questions for 10 minutes.

An hour after the Gripsholm had docked at the foot of West Fifty-seventh Street the film star left by the lower level baggage gangplank. A woman held out a letter of introduction she said was written by a mutual friend and Garbo said coldly: “I never accept letters.” She also refused to write her name for autograph hunters or to pose for newsreels.

More about the interview: HERE!

1937 Candids

Ravello/Italy, March 1937

Garbo and Leopold Stokowski

Garbo trying to runaway from the reporters

1938 Candids

Italy, March 17, 1938

Garbo und Stokowski's famous press conference in Ravello, Italy.

Garbo met Stokowski in Rome and they drove south to the village of Ravello, where the formality of presenting their passports to the town's mayor made it possible for the media to find them. Within a few days, the whole countryside knew about their famous guests.

Marriage rumors circulated with all kinds of improbable scenarios. A truce was struck with the press. In exchange for a promise to leave them alone for the remainder of their stay, Garbo and Stokowski agreed to a March 17 press conference at their villa.

Stokowski appeared first. He was smooth and well-prepared for the barrage of personal questions, making a poignant appeal for people to leave them in peace “so that Miss Garbo can see something of Italy – at least more than I can see from my window.”

Greta entered the library and sat near the fire. She wore a subtle combination of Swedish colors: a blue gabardine suit, Norfolk jacket, yellow sweater, blue woolen scarf, flat suede shoes, and gray gloves; her hair was straight and she had limited her makeup to mascara and a trace of face powder.

Reporters were no longer distracted by the view of the bay. Again, Garbo maintained she was quite unwilling to change her single status. “I only want to be let alone,” she reiterated. “There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar.”

Regarding her trip, she said that she had seen very little of the world. "I wanted to see some of the beautiful things of life with my friend, Mr. Stokowski, who has been very much to me. He has seen so much and knows about the beauty of life and ... I optimistically accepted. I was naïve enough to think we could travel without being discovered and without being hunted. ... It is cruel to bother people who want to be left in peace. This kills beauty for me."

Read more about the day: HERE!

Ravello/Italy, March 22, 1938

Garbo and Stokowski were staying at the flower-decked Villa Cimbrone in Ravello. Shestayed under the name Margaret Luisa Gustafsson. The centuries-old Cimbrone was built on a cliff overlooking the coastal city of Amalfi and the Gulf of Salerno.

Despite a “Keep Out” sign posted on the front gate, the congregation of fans and reporters continued to multiply; tourists mingled with locals and the media. Four carabinieri and three police dogs were assigned to protect the villa's occupants.

Reporters gathered in strategic areas near the balcony and behind the garden wall, hoping to get a glimpse of the mysterious one. What they got instead were snippets of innocuous banter as Greta and Stoki did their morning exercises.

Goeteborg/Sweden, October 7, 1938

Garbo's press conference on Board of the Gripsholm.

England, 1938

1939 Candids

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Undated Candids

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