Many Garbo writers over the decades – misspelled the family surname. When Greta signed a standard player's contract with Svensk Filmindustri on July, 1923. She changed her last name from Gustafsson (two “s”) to Gustafson (one “s”).
Karl, Anna, Sven and Alva
This was the more contemporary spelling of her last name. Like her children, Anna Lovisa would follow Greta's lead and use the new spelling of her last name too. “As far as I know, it has always been spelled G-u-s-t-a-f-s-o-n. No one in the family (that I know of) ever spelled it any other way.” says Gray Reisfield. From now on they were all Gustafson's (with one 's' !).
The Gustafsson Family Tree
Garbo's letters to her family |