Italian director Giorgio Strehler wrote a screenplay for Garbo, based on the final days of the great tragedienne Eleonora Duse. Strehler hoped to get Greta out of her retirement. In the 1990s, this story was turned into a stage play called Due volte sola  and was based on  the original script by Giorgio Strehler. It tells the story of Strehler meeting Garbo who has retired from the screen and he tries to lure her back to films. He tells her that he wrote a screenplay, based on the final Duse days, especially for her.

During their conversations there are a lot of parallels between Garbo and Duse and about Garbo's fear's of an eventual comeback, fear of aging etc. The play was presented at the Comédie Italienne (Montparnasse) in Paris in 2002 to honour Giorgio Strehler five years after his death. Chère Madame Garbo (the French title) was directed by Attilio Maggiulli. Hélène Lestrade portrayed Garbo and Michel Denis playing Strehler.

Garbo Stage Plays - Introduction

Garbó - The Stage Play

Joyeux Noël Mademoiselle Garbo

Garbo's Last Walk

Die Garderobe von Greta Garbo

Dietrich & Garbo: Von Kopf bis Fuss

Chère Madame Garbo

Ollares de perfil. O mito de Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo, quem diria?, acabou no Irajá

The Private Potato Patch of Greta Garbo

The Divine

Garbo's Musicals and Stage Plays - Introduction