Garbo Doubles
- Garbo look-a-likes of the 1930's -

Garbo look-a-like (1930s)

This is an unkwon American actress.

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Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969) was a opera singer.This beautiful portrait of Gladys Swarthout from her film debut in Rose of the Rancho.

Garbo Double - early 1930s

Gitta Gordon, a young German-Swedish dancer, who admitted to look like Garbo.

Mae West, Garbo & Zasu Pitts - mid 1930s

Look-A-Likes in the 1930s

Tala Birell  - mid 1930's

Unknown - 1930s

Garbo look-a-like

Geraldine de Vorak - early 1930s    

Garbo's Stand-In

When Garbo first saw Dvorak (also known as Jeraldine Dvorak) in 1926 while filming Love, she exclaimed: “Gott! She looks like me!”. Dvorak also doubled for Marlene Dietrich.

Dvorak had doubled for Garbo in public during her six-month hideout and a ccording to Karen Swenson, Dvorak was a dress extra in two scenes of The Mysterious Lady.

A woman of Affairs was the first Garbo film to have Geraldine Dvorak, her costume double, on the set every day. Garbo did not want to waste her time doing long shots or over-the-shoulder shots. It is easy to see why Dvorak could stand in for Garbo at costume fittings and impersonate her in public.

Rilla Page Palmborg wrote: “Geraldine had everything that Garbo had–except the mysterious ingredient that made Greta Garbo.”

Dvorak in Dracula (Universal, 1931)
  

Dvorak played one of Draculas wifes, in Universal classic Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi.

Snow White - 1934/1935

Disney's first princess, here with a Garbo Look-a-like image in 1934/35.

Zarah Leander - 1934

The Swedish Actress/Singer did a Garbo parady in one of her 1934's Sweden Revue shows.

Max Factor Doubles - late 1930s

When Max Factor's new movie studio has its gala opening the guests will be seeing doubles, if the originals of the above  group  show  up. These girls are doubles of four of the most popular of screen sirens. Left to right are Pluma Noison, as Claudette Colbert; Kasha Le Sueur, sister-in-law of Crawford; as Joan; Chris Marie Meeker as Garbo and Virginia Randall as Mae West.

Romilda (Mother of Sophia Loren) - 1932

The Mother of Italian actress Sophia Loren won an all-Italy Garbo lookalike contest run by MGM in 1932. But, being only 17 years old, her mother wouldn't allow  to pursue her Hollywood dream. Soon after, she became pregnant with Sophia.

Sophia Loren - 1980

For her television film, Sophia (1980), she portrays herself and her mother Romilda.

Chris Meeker - early 1930s

GG's wardrobe/lights/camera Stand-In

Sigrun Solvason - mid 1930s

This actress and GG look-alike, did suicide in 1934.

Garbo naked?

This German dancer was often mistakenly credited as Garbo.

Garbo and Stokowsky Doubles - 1938

Garbo and John Gilbert Doubles - 1933