Swedish actress Mimi Pollak was born on 9 April 1903 in Karlstad/Sweden. She was a long time friend of Garbo and died on 11 August 1999 in Stockholm/Sweden. Mimi and Greta met for the first time in 1922, when Greta did an audition for a scholarship at the Dramaten School to study acting.
Mimi, late 1920
The girls had a close friendship and after Garbo left Sweden and went to Hollywood, she and Pollak maintained a mail correspondence for 60 years. Mimi kept most her their letters and in 2005 they were given free to public. Two exhibitions in Sweden were held and a book was released about the letters. Greta called her “Mimosan”. Mimi made her first Swedish film in 1922 and her last one in 1991.
She was a lead actress in a major films and went on to become an important actor, director, and teacher at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Mimi died in sommer of 1999 due of natural causes.
