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The savvy sphinx : how Garbo conquered Hollywood / Robert Dance.

by Dance, Robert, 1955- author.

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Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- Sweden -- Biography.

9781496833280 (hardcover)

1496833287 (hardcover)

x, 299 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

"In The Savvy Sphinx: How Garbo Conquered Hollywood, Robert Dance traces the strategy a working-class Swedish teenager employed to enter motion pictures, find her way to America, and ultimately become Hollywood's most glorious product. Brilliant tactics allowed her to reach Hollywood's upper-most echelon and made her one of the last century's most famous people. Greta Garbo was discovered by director Mauritz Stiller, who saw promise in her nascent talent and insisted that she accompany him when he was lured to America by a MGM contract. By twenty she was a movie star and the epitome of glamour. Soon Garbo was among the highest-paid performers, and in many years occupied the number one position. Unique among studio players, she quickly insisted on and was granted final authority over her scripts, co-stars, and directors. But Garbo never played the Hollywood game, and by the late twenties her unwillingness to grant interviews, attend premieres, or meet visiting dignitaries won her the sobriquet the Swedish Sphinx."-- Provided by publisher.

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