Labels:text | human face | letter | woman | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Garbo, Greta Greta Garbo "How I long to get at Garbo," photographer Cecil Beaton once said, "she is at once simple, subtle, and the acme of sophistication." Garbo, however, preserved her elusive image offscreen as well as on. Though romantically linked with men and women, including Marlene Dietrich, silent- movie star John Gilbert, and photographer Cecil Beaton, she never married and jealously guarded her independence. A laborer's daughter, she was discovered by director Mauritz Stiller, when she was working in a Stockholm department store. He changed her name from Gustafsson to Garbo, and took her with him to Hollywood when Louis B. Mayer offered him a contract in 1925. She captured the public's imagination with a series of smoldering roles throughout the 1920s and 1930s, such as "Queen Christina" (1933) and "Anna Karenina" (1935). Greta Garbo, Swedish-U.S. film star, Garbo's line "I want to be alone" - 1905-90 from "Grand Hotel" (1932) - became her catchphrase. In 1942 she retired from making motion pictures and lived in seclusion in Switzerland, France, and New York until her death at age 84. CHRONOLOGY
