Various love affairs with celebs
Garbo was rumored to have had various love affairs with many celebs.
Like Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks, Johnny Weismüller etc.
Some of those rumors you can find HERE!
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Garbo having had an affair with Josephine Baker
Another Internet rumor is that Garbo once had an affair with entertainer Baker.
Garbo does Baker on the Eiffel Tower!
Though she famously just "vanted to be let alone," cross-dressing screen star Greta Garbo had lesbian liplocks with just about every everyone -- including Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks. But the most interesting (and salacious) story is the one involving the beautiful, banana-wearing singer/dancer Josephine Baker. According to legend, the two sultry stars got hot and heavy -- at the foot of the Eiffel Tower itself!
The story's possible, since it's pretty certain they both liked girls (Garbo was written about by several of her lovers including novelist Mercedes da Acosta, while two of Baker's "rainbow tribe" of adopted children have written of her bisexuality). But there's never been any proof that they got hot and heavy with each other.
The juicy story is probably just a twist on Garbo's movie Ninotchka, where she fell in love with a man at the tower -- which she described in the film as "Such a vaste of electreeeecity! ".
You can find the article HERE!
Thanks to RubyRed
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Katherine Hepburn and Garbo had an affair?
Another silly affair rumor appeared in the book Katharine the Great. The author (Darwin Porter) claims
that both legends had an affair together. On page 570, the author claims that Kate had sex with many female Hollywood stars, including Garbo, Marlene and.... Mercedes de Acosta!
You can read excerpts from Kate the Great and this rumor HERE!
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Wilhelm Sörenson
 
The son of a wealthy Swedish industrialist. Sorensen, a year GG's senior, became o frequent escort during her visit, and later followed her back to America.
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Rouben Mamoulian
 
Mamoulian was a theatre and film director in the US, he directed Queen Christina. It is said that they had an affair while filming Greta´s famous movie.
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Prince Sigvard Bernadotte
(in Treatment)
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George Brent
 
Brent was known as a womaniser in Hollywood, and had a lengthy relationship with his co-star Bette Davis.
It was rumored that he and Greta had an affair wile filimng The Painted Veil together.
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Johnny Weissmüller
Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal.
He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures.
Dozens of other actors also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller was by far the best known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films.
In his late 1980s biography he claimed that, in the 1930s, he had a love affair with Garbo.
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Charles Addams (American cartoonist)
Did he 'dated' Garbo?
Addams did his best to appear as spooky and ooky as he could, collecting crossbows and mortuary equipment, painting his bathroom walls black, posing for a picture in a suit and a medieval knight's helmet.
For a tall, big-nosed man whose resemblance to Lyndon Johnson and Walter Matthau was often noted, he was quite the ladies' man. In his book Charles Addams: A cartoonist's life he wrote that he dated, among others, Veronica Lake, Joan Fontaine, Jackie Kennedy (possibly platonically), Greta Garbo, as well as a harem of New York socialites.
Expert taken from Charles Addams: A cartoonist's life
Thanks to Kata
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Ramon Navarro
  
Ramon was a Mexican actor who achieved fame as a "Latin lover" in silent films.
During the filming of Mata Hari together it was rumored that they were lovers. Ramon was gay in real life.
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Carl Brisson
 
Danish performer Carl Brisson was Greta's first teenager idol. One day, the former boxer was in Södermalm (Sweden) with his revue and Greta went to see him live on stage. She had a crush on him. Greta waited backstage and handed him a bunch of violets.
Brisson signed her an autograph and a card that would allow her to see any performance at the theatre. He was rumored to get the lead part in Gösta Berlings saga.
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Erich Maria Remarque
 
Erich Maria Remarque was the author of 1929's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his experiences as a soldier in World War I. The book -- and its strong anti-war message -- made Remarque an international celebrity (the 1930 film version is a classic of early cinema). He emigrated from Germany in 1931 to Switzerland, then moved to the United States in 1939.
He wrote novels and worked briefly in Hollywood, making friends with movie stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Paulette Goddard. They met in the early 1940s and Remarque calimed that they had an affair. He died in 1970.
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George Tabori (Hungarian theatre director and novelist)
 
George Tabori was a playwright, theatre director, novelist and translator. From 1947 until 1969, Tabori worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and New York, where he mingled with the rich and famous. Tabori wrote in his autobiography that he met Garbo and even had an affair ("She never forgave me") with her.
He wrote a screen-play
Der Zauberberg. English producer Alexander Korda bought the film rights to the novel and Tabori worked on a screenplay for six month.
Tabori and Zoltán Korda (Alexander Korda's brother) considered Garbo as Madame Chauchat, Montgomery Clift as Hans Castorp and Charles Laughton was interrested to play. It is possible that Garbo was interested but the project never wnet into production.
Tabori reveals his affair with Garbo in a German magazine:
At Garbo's 100th Birthday the director remembers Garbo. In 1943, Tabori was a war correspondent in Bulgaria. He worked in Hollywood with Hitchcock, with Bert Brecht in Berlin and he said he loved Greta.
Was Greta Garbo a diva?
Perhaps, but she also liked hefty meals like Koenigsberger Klopse (a German dish consisting of meatballs in a white sauce with capers) and she dressed very simple: White blouse, black trousers, hat, sun glasses.
Only once - at my 34. Birthday - she was dressed as well as she was in her films. She was wearing a black and tight long velvet dress and a great elegant hairstyle. I was speechless. She placed herself next to me in my car.
Due of all my excitement i forgot to tell her that this was the place were my dog always lies. When we arrived at the restaurant, her black dress was covered with white hair from my dog. I thought, that she will never forgive me! But she twirled herself three times and the hair flew in all directions and we went on and celebrated.
What is your first memory about her?
She was already celebrated, when I was a little boy in Budapest. For me she is the best actress who ever existed.
How did you meet her?
1948 in Hollywood, when i was at the dentist. I had terrible pain, a tooth had to be pulled out. There she came in the waiting room and asked me: "Aren't you well? I will bring you a coffee." She took care of me and held my hand while i was waiting.
What was so extraordinary about her?
She was very proud, she gave up her career because her last film Two-Faced Woman was a flop. She even gave her fee back. And she was beautiful. Breath-taking. When i visited her in her mansion, she often made gymnastic at the pool - half naked! Garbo had beautiful shoulders.
How did she live?
Seclusive and she collected works by Dalí and Giacometti. I will never forget herbed: Two golden angels graced over it over it and guarded her sleep. Like a crazy person, she loved to race with her Chevrolet. This scared me.
Do you miss your friend?
We spend some months together. But when I left it for two weeks, in order to travel to New York, I lost her love. I still regret this. For me the time i spend with her was a gift. I still don't know, why i deserved this.
© Copyright by BZ
Thanks to RubyRed and Bea
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Fifi D'Orsay
 
A Canadian born actress. While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby, and Buster Crabbe.
Some say that Greta has been romanticly linked to Fifi.
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Louise Brooks
 
Garbo had a close encounter with Louise
Brooks is an actress of the 20's and 30's. The two beauties were never friends, but Brooks knew John Gilbert and occasionally showed up at his house to find Garbo playing tennis. She was as much in awe of Garbo as everyone else.
In her later years, Brooks claimed they spent a night together, and that Garbo had been both charming and tender.
Brooks about Garbo
"From the moment 'Torrent' went into production, no contemporary actress was ever again to be quite happy in herself!".
"In 1928 when I met Garbo at Alice Glazer's, we sat facing each other closely across a narrow breakfast table. Her gaze was so intense and so eloquent that I left after an hour although I had intended to spend the afternoon."
They only met a few times, she told film writer John Kobal, adding offhandedly: "She made a pass at me."
Brooks never ceased to admire and analyse Garbo in her irreverent way: "Garbo was a completely masculine dyke, which makes her films ever more wonderful."
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