Greta Garbo gave up stardom. A biographer explores why.
by Barbara Spindel
Feb 09, 2022
3 minutes
Early in her film career, Greta Garbo wrote to a friend, “All I want is to run away…. one day I will make a scandal and leave everything.” Famously, of course, she eventually did. After 16 years in Hollywood, during which she starred in 24 movies, she retreated from the public eye at age 36 and never worked again.
Robert Gottlieb’s new biography, “Garbo,” helps elucidate the mystery of why his subject removed herself from the world.
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