Greta Garbo
Swedish-American film actressWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
David TuckerHOST
This was swinging London with a hint of the silent screen.
David TuckerHOST
Greta Garbo meets a Kensington dolly bird.
David TuckerHOST
Twiggy shopped there.
David TuckerHOST
Cilla Black shopped there.
David TuckerHOST
And up on the roof, among the gardens, real flamingos.
David TuckerHOST
Big Biba sold everything from lipstick to baked beans.
David TuckerHOST
It was perhaps the world's first great lifestyle store, a department store dreamed up by Busby Berkeley, Greta Garbo, and a particularly glamorous black cat.
David TuckerHOST
It couldn't last.
Karina LongworthHOST
I left very sad." But the show was a hit, and it gave Libby steady work for its six-month run.
Karina LongworthHOST
According to Diana McLellan, in her juicy but rumor-filled book about famous lesbians, The Girls, a pre-Hollywood Greta Garbo was one of the many audience members who first took note of Libby in Gaieties.
Karina LongworthHOST
Though Libby would later idolize Garbo and even later befriend her, in 1925, it's unlikely she would've known who Greta Garbo was.
Karina LongworthHOST
Garbo's first American film was released a year later.
Karina LongworthHOST
In 1925, Libby Holman was a budding star, and Garbo was just a face in the crowd.
GiffordGUEST
I, it's an awesome little dance tune.
GiffordGUEST
I love the little, you know, rap ish in the middle with the Greta Garbo, you know,
RobHOST
Fred
GiffordGUEST
Astaire, Ginger Rogers dance on air.
Josh RosetteGUEST
I, you, you see her in still photographs.
Josh RosetteGUEST
She photographs as divinely as Garbo or Dietrich.
Benjamin SchneiderHOST
Absolutely.
Josh RosetteGUEST
She had those, you know, vaulted cheekbones and the pencil-thin eyebrows and the platinum hair.
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Benjamin SchneiderHOST
Right.
Josh RosetteGUEST
And that is, this is the era where people came to see actors doing their thing, doing their bit.
Josh RosetteGUEST
People came to see Greta Garbo in Greta Garbo parts.
Josh RosetteGUEST
People came to see Cary Grant being dapper and debonair.
Mina KimesGUEST
Um, you know, I, I've-
Jeremy SchaapHOST
Like Greta Garbo.
Jeremy SchaapHOST
[laughs]
Mina KimesGUEST
Uh, yeah.
Roddy McDowallVOICE_ACTOR
But I've cast a lot of real stars in my pictures, too.
Roddy McDowallVOICE_ACTOR
I've even got Greta Garbo in production.
John Milton KennedyADVERTISER
Greta Garbo? Well, this sounds like a very interesting hobby.
William KeighleyHOST
Where do you release your pictures, Roddy?
Roddy McDowallVOICE_ACTOR
I have my own chain of theaters, Mr. Keely.
Shane MulvaneyHOST
Yeah Okay.
Harry BaileyHOST
Fifth, Greta Garbo.
Harry BaileyHOST
Sixth, Marilyn Monroe, which you got.
Harry BaileyHOST
Seventh, Elizabeth Taylor.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
The young gentleman confided in me during a brief conversation in the hall shortly after luncheon.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
We had been speaking for a while on neutral subjects when he suddenly turned a deeper shade of pink and, after some slight hesitation, inquired of me if I did not think Miss Greta Garbo the most beautiful woman at present in existence." I clutched the brow.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
"Jeeves, don't tell me Foss is in love with Greta Garbo." "Yes, sir.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
Unfortunately, such is the case.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
He gave me to understand that it had been coming on for some time, and her last picture settled the issue.
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Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
I don't understand you.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
Well, consider for a moment what Uncle George looks like.
Mark HarringtonNARRATOR
No Greta Garbo, believe me.
Dearbhail McDonaldHOST
Does, does that make it more difficult when people are writing about it or talking about it? Does it make it more difficult for you to, to navigate it?
Patrick KieltyGUEST
I don't think that you can walk out on a Friday night and host The Late Late Show and say, "Hey, look at me," and then, you know, become all Greta Garbo about stuff, you know, whenever, you know, it's, it's stuff in your private life.
Patrick KieltyGUEST
I think that, you know, one of the brilliant things about hosting this show is that people are on your side.
Patrick KieltyGUEST
You know, and, and that is something which is very life-affirming.
speaker_7NARRATOR
But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him.
speaker_7NARRATOR
And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria.
speaker_7NARRATOR
The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime.
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