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Greta Garbo documentary reveals star as ‘a relaxed, silly, funny person’
Exclusive: Previously unseen footage of actor larking about with friends at home upends Garbo’s aloof image
The British film-maker Lorna Tucker has been given access to previously unseen behind the scenes footage in which the star, once described as “the most alluring, vibrant and yet aloof character ever to grace the motion picture screen”, can be seen larking about and laughing. After getting a scholarship to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, she was cast in 1924 in the silent epic The Saga of Gösta Berling, whose director, Mauritz Stiller, gave her the name Garbo and got her a Hollywood contract. Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/AlamyShe withdrew from public life, relying on close and protective friends, including her long-term lover, George Schlee, and the comic actor and film-maker Charlie Chaplin.
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