Greta Garbo Centenary in Sweden
September 21st, 2005 by Andre Soares
The Local reports that the Swedish Film Institute is celebrating Greta Garbo’s centenary with a retrospective of her films, including rare shorts in which the elusive star appeared long before her days in Hollywood.
(Note: the article erroneously states that the series encompasses all of Garbo’s work; that is not so, though the SFI will screen a wide range of films, accompanying Garbo from her days in Europe to her last Hollywood picture, the unfairly maligned comedy Two-Faced Woman [1941]).
As per the Local article, at the start of the festival Film Institute director Åse Cleveland introduced Mauritz Stiller’s Gösta Berlings Saga / The Atonement of Gosta Berling (1924) — which boasted a new score by Matti Bye — remarking that "even in Norway, Garbo is still front page news." But what about Iceland?
Greta Garbo would have turned 100 this past September 18. She died on April 15, 1990, at the age of 84.
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