Dec 11, 2021 · The new book "Garbo," by Roland Gottlieb, reveals how the legendary actress Greta Garbo had a libertine sex life — and didn't care who knew it.

Feb 23, 2020 · Greta took lovers of both sexes all her life. As a young woman she was obsessed with her drama school sweetheart, Swedish actress Mimi Pollak, an unrequited love that she carried on (by mail) for nearly 60 years.

Dec 19, 2021 · Greta Garbo chose to never marry, but she sure loved to get around. The silver-screen icon went out with men and women, gays and straights, singletons and married people, and she did it all on her own terms.

Sep 6, 2023 · She was in a relationship with her frequent co-star John Gilbert, who also served as her acting coach. At the dawn of the 1930s their relationship was over, but Garbo’s star remained on the...

Feb 6, 2024 · Greta Garbo's romantic entanglements spanned a wide array of individuals. From her relationship with Cecil Beaton that endured from 1946 to 1972, to brief encounters such as with Rouben Mamoulian in 1933, Nils Asther from 1928 to 1929, and Fifi D'Orsay in 1928, her love life was marked by diversity.

Oct 24, 2021 · Swedish-born American actress Greta Garbo lived a lonely life and was never married. However, she was romantically involved with other women, two of whom she exchanged multiple letters that have now been publicized.

Oct 9, 2015 · In 1926, director Clarence Brown wanted to cast Garbo opposite Gilbert in a romantic tragedy called Flesh and the Devil. It’s been reported that Greta and Jack, as all knew him, fell in love at...

Greta Garbo called homosexual affairs "exciting secrets." And if you were "one of the girls," as early Hollywood described Sapphic stars ranging from the great Nazimova to Marlene Dietrich,...

Jan 9, 2019 · Garbo’s love life, in turn, included a well-known relationship with de Acosta, Bankhead, Tashman, and Dietrich, though some reports have it that her association with Dietrich was plagued by animosity. These are only a few of the Golden Age women known for their same-sex relationships in Hollywood’s celebrity circles.

Feb 11, 2014 · After a chance meeting in Hollywood in the early '30s that was punctuated with an flirtation, the besotted Beaton angled his way back into her life 15 years later like a lover obsessed. For...