SWEDISH FILM STAR
GRETA GARBO HONOUR El 0 AWARD BY . KING GUSTAV STOCKHOLM, Dec. 30 King Gustav V. of Sweden has awarded Greta Garbo, the film star, the medal for literature and art, which is the highest Swedish distinction for artistic talent. Miss Greta Garbo was born at Stockholm in 1906. She was discovered in a school of dramatic art by Mr. Mauritz Stiller, a Swedish film director, and as a result made her film debut with the old Swedish Biograph Company as the heroine in his production "The Atonement of Gosta Berling." She *was so successful that she received an offer
from the Metro-Goldwyn Company and proceeded to Ho] Iv wood where she appeared in "iThe Temptress," "The Flesh and the Devil," "The Kiss" and a number of other silent films, becoming one of the most popular of cinema stars. Miss Garbo has never forgotten lier struggle for success, and the reputation she has achieved as a woman who keeps aloof and who has no preoccupation except her art is said to be due to a combination of prudence in saving heir earnings and shrewdness in appreciating the value of dramatising the public's idea of a rare personality. She was one of the last of the Hollywood stars to enter tho talking films.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22616, 2 January 1937, Page 9
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