1. Birthday: September 18, 1905
2. Grew up in: the slum neighborhoods of Stockholm, Sweden
3. Real name: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
4. First job: soap-lather girl in a Stockholm barbershop
5. First spoken words in a movie (video, below): “Give me a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don’t be stingy, baby.”
6. Marriages or children: None
7. Turned down the leading role in: DARK VICTORY (taken by Bette Davis)
8. How she described her final film, TWO-FACED WOMAN: “My grave.”
9. Fun fact: Once modeled hats for a department store catalog
10. Quote: “I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone.’ There is a world of difference.”

“Garbo Talks!” was the advertising slogan for the 1930 film, ANNA CHRISTIE, in which Garbo spoke her first words…