People inspired....

Gerda Taro

Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylle; 1910 - 1937) was a Jewish German war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa. Taro is regarded often as the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war and to die while do so. She adopted the professional name of Gerda Taro, after the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto and Greta Garbo.

Manny Ramirez, the Greta Garbo of baseball

Ramirez is an American professional baseball player who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.

In 2005,   Manny has become the Greta Garbo of baseball, telling general managers of clubs who want to deal for him that, most of all, he wants to be alone.

Garbo the tarantula - 2008

Garbo is a tarantula being kept by the Reisterstown Library in Baltimore (USA) as a mascot for the Summer Reading Club theme, Catch The Reading Bug.

Garbo the tarantula

The name Garbo (as in Greta) was chosen from a list of over 140 submissions, according to library staff. Rejected names included Charlotte, Fang and Aphrobitey (like the Greek goddess).

According to Mank, on an average day, six children visit Garbo every hour.

Wislawa Szymborska - The Greta Garbo of European poetry

This Polish Nobel Prize winner is always spending her birthdays in the privacy and that earned her the nickname "the Greta Garbo of European poetry."

Wislawa Szymborska, born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sari Maritza - A new Garbo

At the height of the Garboesque vogue, some of the other imitations were: Sari Maritza, a Chaplin discovery who passed herself off as Continental, but was a British girl. Last reported living in Georgetown, MD.

Sari Maritza (March 17, 1910 – July, 1987) was an actress in British films of the early 1930s. Born Dora Patricia Detring-Nathan in Tianjin, China on March 15,1910. Maritza was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and his Viennese wife. Her stage name was taken from the titles of two then famous european operettas: 'Sari' and 'Countess Maitza'.

She entered films in 1930 and gained some notoriety for dancing a tango with Charles Chaplin at the premiere for his film City Lights in 1931. Although her behaviour was described as lurid, which was silly publicity, she attracted attention and was cast in several low budget, but relatively popular British films.

Isa Miranda - A new Garbo

Paramount quickly signed up Isa Miranda when Marlene Dietrich departed (‘38). Not only did this Italian star look like Dietrich, she starred in HOTEL IMPERIAL, originally planned as I LOVE A SOLDIER, a vehicle for Dietrich. She was bounced out of Cukor's ZAZA after five days of shooting and replaced by Claudette Colbert.

Vivacious Isa Miranda was exquisitely photographed

"But I did ZAZA abroad afterwards and also in the theatre with Vittorio De Sica," she later said. "It was one of my greatest successes." ADVENTURE IN DIAMONDS didn't help her faltering Hollywood career and she returned to Italy (`40).

With De Sica, she starred on stage in "The Guardsman", “Tovarich” and the Italian film comedy, MISTAKE TO BE ALIVE. She's considered one of Italy's most distinguished actresses.

Gwili Andre - New Garbo

Gwili Andre, a stunning model from Denmark was once publicized as ‘America's most beautiful model.'

Gwili Andre's tragic quality was sadly haunting.

David O. Zelznick saw famed Steichen's photos of her looking alluring and Garboish and took her to RKO. In THE ROAR OF THE DRAGON and THE MYSTERIES OF THE FRENCH POLICE, critics thought she lacked anima­tion and she swiftly returned to modeling. Close friend, George Cukor gave her a bit in A WOMAN'S FACE ('41).

Finally, there was the small ocean front apartment, meagerly furnished, where she lived out her last years. When she burned to death in 1959 the day after her 52nd birthday, she was surrounded by boxes of faded news­paper clippings, stills and her old magazine covers.

Anna Sten - Goldwyn's new Garbo

Samuel Goldwyn advertised the fact that he spent a million dollars on the exotic sweepstakes on Russian actress Anna Sten but all to little effect. She arrived in ‘32 as Goldwyn's personal candidate to oust Garbo and ended up becoming known as ‘Goldwyn's Folly.' Sten's ill-starred bid for stardom in Zola's NANA was toned down for US audiences.

Goldwyn's folly!

It didn't matter – they stayed away. The same happened with WE LIVE AGAIN and THE WEDDING NIGHT co-starring Gary Cooper. Sten signed with Grand National, but made only one ‘B', EXILE EXPRESS (‘39) and has worked only occasionally since that time. In 1960, she was on Broadway in "Three Penny Opera." She lives in Beverly Hills, where she recently held an exhibit of her paintings.

Tala Birell - Another Garbo

Tala Birell (1907 - 1958) was a Romanian - American stage and film actress. Star of stage in Europe, she became popular in American film. She is buried in the Bavarian village Marquartstein in a family tomb.

Tala Birell was an alluring personage.

When Viennese sensation Tala Birell first appeared in 1932 fan magazines, Universal heralded her as "Another Garbo" because of her sad, languid, indifferent look.

The razzle-dazzle ended soon when THE DOOMED BATTALION and NAGANA were quickly forgotten. Plans to star her in NAN were shelved. It was unlikely that a major studio would pick up such a publicized failure, but again energetic Harry Cohn came to the rescue. Columbia put her in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (`35) as the tragic Dovinia but even with Von Sternberg's visual genius, the results were bland.

John Gilbert's last picture, THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA she appeared as a temperamental movie queen. Back at Universal, Birell was top-billed with Walter Pidgeon in SHE'S DANGEROUS (‘37). In the 1940's, she had good roles in THE SONG OF BERNA­DETTE and low budgets like WOMAN IN BONDAGE.

In 1947 she still continued to essay her sultry stock in trade in CALCUTTA. Birell soon drifted into obscurity and is rumored to have died behind the Iron Curtain in 1959 at 51.

Eva von Berne - The new Garbo

Thalberg discovered this Vienna dancer (orginal name: Eva von Pletzner) in Austria on stage, brought her to Hollywood and renamed her van Berne.

Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney - The Garbo and Gable of Hollywood High School

In the late 1930s, teenage stars Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney were once called The Garbo and Gable of Hollywood High School.

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney

Source: Judy Garland Biography film

Danielle Darrieux - The French Garbo

In 1938, Danielle Darrieux had been launched by Universal as a French Garbo.

Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French actress and singer. She signed with Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in The Rage of Paris (1938).

Under the German occupation of France during World War II, she continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots, but the manager of the German Continental threatened to deport her brother to Germany. She returned to Hollywood to make the 1951 MGM musical, Rich, Young and Pretty after several years in Europe.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz lured her to star opposite James Mason in 5 Fingers (1952). Back home, she appeared in The Red and the Black (1954). The next year she starred in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Due to its content, the film was banned by the Catholic censors in the United States.

Danielle Darrieux later said of Garbo
"It's a pity that wie aren't friends. I don't like a lot of people and i can understand her wishes to be left alone. Maybe the two of us could get together and she could come over and just relax while I paint and putter and do my sculpture--maybe she could do some painting, too, or whatever. We never knew each other in Hollywood, when we were both making pictures. Wouldn't it be a laugh if we two Swedes became good friends--what an item that would make!"

Source: Conversations with Garbo

Garbo the Scrimshaw artist

Gary Williams a.k.a. Garbo is an American "scrimshaw artist" and names himself Garbo.

Scrimshaw is the name given to handiwork created by whalers made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of Sperm Whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.

Dominique Sanda - The Garbo of the 1970s

Dominique Sanda (born March 11, 1948) is a French actress and former fashion model. She is noted especially for her work in some important European films of the seventies, such as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. Sanda also starred in the films Steppenwolf with Max von Sydow and The Mackintosh Man with Paul Newman.

It was once written that she was called The Garbo of the 1970.

Elissa Landi - The Garbo-Dietrich of Fox

Elissa Landi (1904 –1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing.

She was market as the Garbo-Dietrich of Fox.

Fox promoted Elissa Landi as The Empress of Emotion.

Elissa Landi was an aristocrat by birth, the granddaughter of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, – her father an Italian count and her mother an Austrian countess. From the London stage, Rouben Mamoulian took her to Broadway in "A Farewell to Arms" which led to a Fox contract (1931).

Other than THE YELLOW TICKET with Olivier, her films for them were mediocre, although she was a talented actress. De Mille borrowed her to play the Christian heroine of THE SIGN OF THE CROSS (`33). She failed to complete Fox's I LOVED YOU ON WEDNESDAY and the script was changed to feature 16-year-old June Lang in the ballet dance of the maidens. Fox dissolved their agreement and Landi acquired a reputation for being difficult. On to Columbia where Harry Cohn acquired NIGHT BUS and set Clark Gable and Arline Judge - but Cohn decided Judge was too young in contrast to Gable. He cast Landi.

There were script problems and eventually Claudette Colbert won out. At the Academy Awards (1935), the script now retitled IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT claimed five Oscars. Cohn instead assigned her a sophisticated drama, SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN, but when she refused THE PARTY'S OVER with Stuart Erwin, so was her Columbia pact. Sadly no roles of consequence followed THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO opposite Robert Donat and ENTER MADAME with Cary Grant, in which she was a prima donna.

Because of her friend, Myrna Loy, she had a supporting role in AFTER THE THIN MAN and two other MGM programmers, but her movie career was finished. She deserted Hollywood for New York and took to lecturing in colleges, on radio, summer stock, in addition to teaching at City College of New York. In 1943, Landi turned up in PRC'S CORREGI­DOR.

On Broadway, she fared better in "Dark Hammock" (‘44). She died in 1948 of cancer, at 43 in , Kingston, New York.

Kathryn Sergava - The "second" Garbo

Kathryn Sergava, was the sloe-eyed Russian siren taken up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to replace Greta Garbo when the great actress decided to retire from Hollywood in 1934.

After Garbo's announcement that she was settling permanently on a secluded mountain estate in Sweden, MGM scanned many supposed lookalikes; and when it found a Russian ballet dancer with little screen experience but who was attractive and glamorous in a convincing Garbo way, it immediately put her under contract.

  
Kathryn Sergava in Garbo styled photos

The studio decided not to build up Kathryn Sergava gradually but to keep her under wraps, then allow her to burst forth in glory. Irving Thalberg, MGM's head, thought of parading her along Hollywood Boulevard with the MGM lion on a leash, just as Paramount had made Pola Negri travel around with a leopard in 1919.

Studio officials were so impressed by the Kathryn Sergava screen test that Garbo's friend Wister Clark sensed that the Russian posed a real threat. A picture of her, together with a letter of explanation, was hurriedly dispatched to Sweden by plane and boat, and Garbo immediately decided that she must return to America . Negotiations were opened with Thalberg and the studio head, Louis B Mayer, and the result was Garbo's starring role in the acclaimed Anna Karenina (1935). The lead was to have gone to Kathryn Sergava; but the studio had now lost interest in a "second Garbo".

A businessman's daughter, she was born Katya Sergeiva in St Petersburg on July 30 1909 and educated at local schools before studying ballet with the Moscow Art Theatre.

In 1930 Kathryn Sergava settled in London , where the future King Edward VIII and his brother, Prince George , were counted among her fans. The British director Monty Banks gave her a part in the film 18 Minutes (1934), starring Gregory Ratoff and Benita Hume.

Shortly after filming was completed, it was announced that she and Leslie Howard would feature together in British Agent (1934), based on Robert Bruce Lockhart's adventures in Moscow during the Revolution. Half-way through filming she was replaced by Kay Francis, but this did not stop MGM snapping her up.

For a year after Garbo's return to Hollywood , Kathryn Sergava enjoyed a life of ease at the beach, never appearing at the studio and having salary cheques mailed to her. Then her contract was terminated. There was no room at MGM for Garbo and Sergava. But Warner Bros signed her after a screen test. Audiences were taken with her slow, sultry glances as Maritza, who enjoyed the sympathetic attention of a womanising doctor played by William Warren in Bedside (1934).

While still living in New York, Kathryn Sergava appeared in occasional episodes of several undistinguished television shows until the mid-1960s, when she retired for good to a luxurious condominium in the fashionable Rancho Mirage suburb of Palm Springs; her neighbours included Ginger Rogers and Frank Sinatra, and she later became a friend of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Kathryn Sergava spoke in the same low voice as Garbo, and wore big sunglasses and a floppy hat. She liked to dine alone at the Hollywood restaurant Spago's, where the head waiter was instructed to point her out to any celebrities.

But when the director Sidney Lumet asked Kathryn Sergava to play the title role in Garbo Talks! (1984), Sergava was indignant, viewing it as an insult. She declined the invitation, and the uncredited role was given to the songwriter Betty Comden.

More info about Garbo Talks!  HERE!

Thanks to SnowWhite

Jean Batten - The Garbo of the sky

Jean Batten (1909–1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Because of her striking looks and her reclusive tendencies, she became known as the Greta Garbo of the sky.

Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally. In 1934 she flew solo from England to Australia. For this achievement and for subsequent record-breaking flights, she was awarded the Harmon Trophy three times from 1935 through to 1937.

Batten was created Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1936. In 1938, she was the first woman to be awarded the medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, aviation's highest honour. World War II was the end of her flying adventures, and she retired from public life. She became a recluse and died alone in a hotel on Majorca from complications from a dog bite.

A great book about her

Jadwiga Smosarska - The Polish Garbo

Polish actress and 1930s star, Jadwiga Smosarska (1898 - 1971), was once known as The Polish Garbo. Smosarska, was the Queen of the cinema in Poland before 1939 and the number 1 of all the Polish pre-war movie stars.

More info  HERE!

Thanks to Catherine

Madhubala - The Garbo of India

Madhubala is the definitive screen goddess of Hindi films. She was often compared to Garbo. She was born Mumtaz Begum Jehan Dehlavi, was a popular Hindi film actress who starred in several successful films in the 1950s and early 1960s. Many have achieved classic and cult status today. With her contemporaries Nargis and Meena Kumari she is widely regarded as one of the most talented and influential actresses to have appeared on the screens of Indian cinema.

Madhubala, whose face was as iconic to Indian audiences as Garbo's had been in the West. In India Madhubala was often compared to Garbo and she was known as The Garbo of India. Every cinema has their legends, Hollywood has had Garbo, and in India they had  Madhublala.

Anneliese von Eschtruth - The New Garbo

German actress Anneliese von Eschtruth  was once named The New Garbo.

Grace Kelly - The New Garbo

Grace Patricia Kelly (1929 – 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco. Princess Grace maintained dual American and Monegasque citizenship after her marriage.

The principality's current Sovereign Prince, Albert II is the son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. The American Film Institute ranked Kelly #13 amongst the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.

She was often called The New Garbo.

Vera Zorina - The dancing Garbo

Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig on January 2, 1917 in Berlin, Germany) was a ballet dancer and choreographer in Europe and the United States. She died on April 9, 2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico of natural causes at the age of 86.

Vera was hyped as "The dancing Garbo".

Thanks to Henning

Sigrid Gurie - The New Garbo

Sigrid Gurie ( 1911-1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s. Gurie was called by "The siren of the fjords" by Sam Goldwyn and she was hyped as another Garbo.

The Norwegian Garbo – Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie.

Goldwyn tried again with seductive Sigrid Gurie from Norway. He chose to introduce her as a Chinese Princess in his 8 Million production, THE ADVENTURES OF MARGO POLO opposite Gary Cooper.

Then Life Magazine printed she was Brooklyn-born, seems the family returned to Norway when Gurie was 4-years-old which would account for her heavy Scandinavian accent.

It was also discovered, she previously appeared in THE ROAD BACK. When Syliva Sidney dropped out of Walter Wanger's ALGIERS, Gurie played Charles Boyer's jealous Algerian sweetheart - but this was Hedy Lamarr's show. Plans to star her in YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL with Merle Oberon and Vera Zorina never materialized and Goldwyn quietly scrapped her contract.

Universal always interested in getting a cut-price name, starred her in THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN, RIO, and DARK STREETS OF CAIRO, all above average quality. On location in Mexico for SOFIA (‘48), she thereafter made her home in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, an artists colony. She died in Mexico City in 1969 at 58.

Thanks to Henning

Tilda Swinton - The Greta Garbo of the avant garde

Tilda Swinton (born November 5, 1960) is a BAFTA-winning, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. Tilda  has been dubbed “the Greta Garbo of the avant garde”.

Frances Farmer - "The Paramount Garbo"

Paramount Pictures decided to make Farmer their answer to MGM's Garbo.

Frances Elena Farmer (1913 – 1970) was an American film, television and theater actress. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her six-year involuntary commitment to a mental hospital. After her death, Farmer was the subject of three films, three books, and numerous songs and magazine articles.

Thanks to David Lee

The Palmolive Garbo - Ingrid Bergman

Bergman was once called "The Palmolive Garbo" because of Palmolive soap and the clean/fresh-faced look Bergman had.

Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won the Tony Award for Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

India's Greta Garbo - Rekha

Rekha, born October 10, 1954, is a National Film Award-winning Bollywood actress. She is known as an icon of the Indian film industry, frequently described as India's Greta Garbo or The Bollywood Diva. Throughout the 1970s till date, she has been featured as a sex symbol in the Indian media.

She is the most fascinating woman in Bollywood. The aura around her is intriguing. For the first time, Rekha breaks her silence on her private life. Featuring on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal on Star World to be aired this Sunday, Rekha speaks about her relationship with her parents, her marriage, stardom and the influence of superstar Amitabh Bachchan in her life.

Thanks to Snow White

The Garbo of literature – Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) has been called The Garbo of literature for her extreme reclusiveness.

Barnes was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens.

Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T.S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes's death, interest in her work has grown and many of her books are back in print.

Thanks to Meri

The Garbo of the fashion models - Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s.

Schiffer is one of the world's most successful supermodels, appearing on over 500 magazine coversodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s.

Her image was unapproachable and mysterious. Some fashion designers or reporters  named her "The Garbo of the fashion models".

The Greta Garbo of the press – Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci (1929 - 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career...

Due of her beauty, she was known as “The Greta Garbo of the press”.

The Greta Garbo of the canine - Leona Helmsley dog

The dog of billionaire Leona Helmsley has been named “The Greta Garbo of the canine”.

  

Leona Helmsley (1920 –2007) was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname "Queen of Mean."

The little dog, called “Trouble”, inherits $12 million after Helmsley's died. American press is calling Trouble, “The Greta Garbo of the canine”, because he has become the Number One kidnap target in the world and since his inheritance is living in getaway.

Greta Garbo of Indian fashion

Rajesh Pratap Singh is a reclusive award-winning designer. He's called the Greta Garbo of Indian fashion because of his quiet demeanour.

But Singh says, “ You can't compare me to Greta Garbo — she was a great actress. People just put you in boxes without thinking what they're saying. You're labelled when you don't talk much. But I feel it's good to shut up when you have nothing to say.”

The Greta Garbo of the Bar

Fanny E. Holtzmann (1902-1980) had been an entertainment lawyer during Hollywood 's heyday.

She was known as The Greta Garbo of the Bar.

Thanks to Lydia

The “New” Garbo - Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992) was a German-born American actress, singer, and entertainer. She is regarded as being the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood.

Throughout her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, World War II frontline entertainer during the 1940s, and finally as an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century. The American Film Institute ranked Dietrich No. 9 amongst the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.

The “New” Garbo - Constance Bennett

Constance Bennett (1904 -1965) was a US actress known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career.

Largely underrated today, Bennett was one of Hollywood 's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation.

The American  Garbo – Katherine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic American actress of film, television and stage.

In her early carrer it is said that she was titled or cast as the The American Garbo.

A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen).

Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins opposite her friend Laurence Olivier, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the top female star of all time.

Hepburn had a famous and longtime romance with Spencer Tracy, both on- and off-screen.

The Male Garbo – Daniel Day Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. Born in London , England , he became an Irish citizen in 1993.

He once was titled as the “Male Garbo”.

After studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Daniel Day-Lewis performed in numerous plays and films that gained him an Academy Award, two BAFTA awards, and four Golden Globe nominations. In the midst of his career, he has become known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, starring in only four movies in the last ten years.

He has also been acknowledged for his constant devotion to his roles and copious amounts of research he performs. Often he will remain in character and speak in the accents he has used on screen throughout the entire shooting schedule.

The Greta Garbo of Canadian letters

Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient.

He is known as the “Greta Garbo of Canadian letters”.

The Greta Garbo of Jazz

Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917 – 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. He was so private and reclusive that in his late years he was known as the Greta Garbo of jazz.

Suchitra Sen - The Greta Garbo of Indian films

Suchitra Sen is a Bengali actress who has attained legendary status because of her performances in Bengali cinema. She is known as the Greta Garbo of Bengali cinema, The Greta Garbo of Indian films or as the Greta Garbo of Indian cinema.

Suchitra Sen (April 6, 1929) or (April 6, 1931) is a Bengali actress who has attained legendary status because of her performances in Bengali cinema. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bangala films, Uttam Kumar, are all-time classics in Bengali cinema.

She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any public appearances. When she left movies, she was slowly but steadily losing the position of leading lady of Bengali silver screen.

Chinas Greta Garbo / The Chinese Greta Garbo

Eileen Chang (1920–1995) was a Chinese writer. She was known as the „Chinese Greta Garbo” or “Chinas Garbo”.

The Greta Garbo of the Philippines

Gilda Gales, was a Philippine movie star in the 1930s. Because she was, according to the newspaper of the day, gifted with that languorous look and peculiar drooping of eyebrows, Gilda Gales was dubbed the Greta Garbo of the Philippines. It was noted that one had only to look at her picture to note the striking resemblance to the Swedish star.

Gilda's first assignment was as supporting player in Malayan movies' Makata at Paraluman. This was followed by Liberty Cadet's Love and six other pictures. The crowning point of Gilda's brief career as a movie star came in 1937 when she starred opposite Eduardo de Castro in Brides of Sulu, a picture produced in the Philippines (actually filmed in Jolo, Sulu) with an all-Filipino cast, but which was directed by Hollywood's Jack Nelson. Released by Universal Pictures, Brides of Sulu featured, for the first time in local movie history, difficult underwater scenes. Gilda's performance in the picture was so remarkably impressive she was offered an important role in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty. Unfortunately, she was ill at the time and could not stand the rigors of travel.

Gilda married Miguel Blanco, bar and restaurant proprietor in Manila (deceased in 1995), and they are survived by four children: Miguel and Jose in Australia and Marie Cruz and Tina in the United States. The family believes that all of Gales' movies were destroyed during World War II.

Gilda died in Monrovia, California, June 16, 2003 from complications resulting in a stroke. She is still known as Philippine Cinema's Answer to Garbo.

Asian Garbo beauty contest

Montblanc International GmbH is a German manufacturer of fine writing instruments, watches and accessories, often identified by their famous "White Star" logo. On the occasion of Greta Garbo's 100th birthday Montblanc has dedicated its first Special Edition for the elegant woman.

In early 2006, an asian “Garbo-beauty-contest” party was held by Mont Blanc to commemorate the 100th birthday of screen legend Greta Garbo in Shanghai/China.

Mont Blanc invited six actresses representing different parts of Asia to attend. Christy was the representative for Hong Kong. Taiwan was represented by Charlie Yeung; China was represented by Li Bingbing; Singapore was represented by Fann Wang; Malaysia was represented by Tiara Jacqueline; Korea was represented by Kim So-yeon.

Thanks to Nici

Journalist Garbo?

The “hobby” journalist Gareth Phillips is known as “Garbo”.

He was a member of local 1980s bands ‘Andy Pandemonium' and 'Just Bongo'.

These days he lives and works in London, where he continues to solicit by day and play music by night. Some of you may recall him as  'Old Garbo'. They call him that way due of a tale about a journalist who hung out in the bars of Wind Street, in Dylan Thomas's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog'.

More  HERE!

The "Greta Garbo golf act”

Colin Montgomerie

Colin Montgomerie is a Scottish professional golfer often referred to by his nickname 'Monty'. He has had one of the finest careers in European Tour history, having won a record eight Order of Merit titles including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999.

In 2007 he has revealed how his new "Greta Garbo" act has revived his career and given him a chance to break his Major duck at last.

Monty, 44, used to be known as "Mrs Doubtfire" - but now a far classier film star has inspired his recent return to form – Garbo.

When the going gets tough for the Scot, he no longer gets into a rage - he just wants to be alone.

The male edition of Garbo

American actor George Brent was know as quite ladies, man. In the 1930s the press called him “the male edition of Garbo”.

Brent changed his name, and found work on Broadway in the late 20's before heading for Hollywood, to begin a career that spanned two decades. George Brent was typically cast as a gentlemanly, romantic leading man, after briefly cast in tough hero roles. His debut in Hollywood films was, Under Suspicion in 1930.

According to his friends, Brent was the kind of man woman found easy to be with, contrary to his cinematic reputation, George Brent was know as quite ladies, man.

Brent starred with Garbo in The Painted Veil (USA 1934) and it is siad that they had an affair together.

Thanks to Greg

Garbo of gay porn

Peter Berlin (born 1934) is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, model, and gay sex symbol. In the early to mid-1970s, Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of his time.

Serving as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer, Berlin redefined self-portraiture and became an international sensation.

He is the grandson of the famous fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene and is known as “the Greta Garbo of  gay porn”, “the Garbo of Gay porn” and “Garbo of gay pornography”.

The Roller Derby Garbo

Cheyenne Picardo is a huge New York Garbo  fan, has adopted a variation of Garbo's name as her alter ego for Roller Derby. She is  Greta Turbo,   from the Gotham Girls Roller Derby.

Greta Turbo's Biography
Greta Turbo (orginal name Greta Tustafson, it was changed for the business) prefers that people know as little about her as possible, and at this time she refuses to provide much, if any, biographical information. With rare exception, she declines interviews and pictures, and even at bouts is often caught hiding her eyes beneath her helmet or, perhaps, a fedora. Of her private life, it is only known that she lives alone and frequently orders boiled pierogies from Odessa.

More Infos about "Greta Turbo" go  HERE  and  HERE!

The Italian Garbo

Italian Actress Rossella Falk, born 1926, is/was known in Italy as the "Italian Garbo". In her country she  is considered as a "living legend".

She is a well known Italian Stage and film actress and even filmed in Hollywood. Her most famous film was the 1968 released feature film The Legend of Lylah Clare.

The Danish Garbo

Danish Actress Bodil Kjer was known (and still is) as Denmark's answer to Greta Garbo. She made her first film in 1938 and was one of Denmark's biggest stars.

Over the years, she consistently turned down offers to work in Hollywood and abroad, and demurs at comparisons with Greta Garbo. "I have had a wonderful life here in Denmark and it doesn't seem to be over yet," she remarks. "Why change it? Going away was never a priority when the possibilities for me here were so prestigious."

Bodil died in 2003.

The male Greta Garbo

Nils Asther (Denmark 1897 – 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish stage and film actor. In his early Hollywood career, due of his looks and mystic, Nils had the misfortune or fortune to be labelled as "The male Greta Garbo".

Born in Copenhagen/Denmark, Asther grew up in Sweden and attended the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm just like Garbo whim he  made  two films with: Wild Orchids and The Single Standard.

His career in Hollywood dwindled throughout the 1940s, and he soon returned to Sweden, where he remained an active actor on stage and television until his death in 1981. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Read more about him  HERE!

Garbo - The Spy

Juan Pujol Garcia was a Double Agent For Britain During WWII. His codename was GARBO due of his mystic and because people who knew him said that he was without doubt the finest actor they have ever seen. A new film about his life is in production right now. It is simply titled GARBO. It will be directed by  Antonio Hernandez and premiere sometime in 2008.

More Infos about Garcia  HERE!

Garbo the Aviator

Jean Gardner Batten CBE  (1909–1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Because of her striking looks and her reclusive tendencies, she became known as the "Greta Garbo of the skies".

Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally. In 1934 she flew solo from England to Australia. For this achievement and for subsequent record-breaking flights, she was awarded the Harmon Trophy three times from 1935 through to 1937.

Batten was created Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1936. In 1938, she was the first woman to be awarded the medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, aviation's highest honour. World War II was the end of her flying adventures, and she retired from public life. She became a recluse and died alone in a hotel on Majorca from complications from a dog bite.

The Chinese Garbo

Beautyful Chinese film actress Gong Li is known as the "China's Garbo" or "Hong Kong's Garbo", because of her stunning beauty and acting range. She first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Gong Li was voted the most beautiful person in China.

It is said that, like Garbo, she has an almost otherworldly beauty and a remarkable acting range; her two score movie credits to date continue to explore new ground. Also like Garbo, Gong is an intensely private woman who struggles to balance her desire for privacy with the publicity that her profession and art entail.

Directors Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and Michael Mann are reported to be admirers of her.

She is most known for the 2005  film Memoirs of a Geisha.

Garbo - The Photographer

In the early 1950s (not sure) there was an American fashion photograper called GARBO. I think he was from Chicago and he mostly made photos from dancers and artists.

The Garbo of art / The Latin Garbo

Maria Sol Escobar (born May 22, 1930), otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas. She is known as the art world's answer to Greta Garbo.

In her early career the press dubbed her the "latin Garbo" due o f her strinking looks and enigmatic demeanor.

The American Garbo

American actress Jean Arthur (1900 –1991) was once known as the "American Garbo".

Arthur  was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains, arguably, the quintessential female exemplar of the screwball comedy genre.

"No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her."

The Nazi Garbo, The red-headed Garbo or The New Garbo

In her early career Zarah Leander (1907 –1981), a Swedish actress and singer, was also known as The Nazi Garbo, The red-headed Garbo or a  Half Garbo/Half Marlene or as the New Garbo.

Beginning her acting-singing career in provincial Swedish theatres in 1929, she soon worked her way up to starring roles in Stockholm and Vienna. In 1936 she signed a contract with the Berlin film studio, UFA , despite her imperfect command of German.

During World War II she became the highest-paid star of the Nazi cinema, upsetting Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propoganda, who felt that this role should have been filled by a German actress. After the war she tried to re-establish her career with Swedish audiences but was slow to overcome their hostility.

Her few post-war films met with little success but in the 1960's she enjoyed a "comeback" of sorts appearing in musicals and concerts in German and Austria.