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1 00:00:38,791 --> 00:00:40,541 [pensive music plays] 2 00:00:52,750 --> 00:00:55,250 {\an8}[Greta Garbo] What a waste of the best years of my life. 3 00:00:56,583 --> 00:00:58,125 {\an8} Always alone. 4 00:01:00,541 --> 00:01:04,416 It was so stupid not be able to partake more. 5 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:07,125 No. 6 00:01:07,708 --> 00:01:09,166 Now I'm just a gypsy. 7 00:01:10,583 --> 00:01:12,500 Living a life apart. 8 00:01:13,708 --> 00:01:15,583 [pensive music plays] 9 00:01:28,708 --> 00:01:30,541 {\an8}[telephone rings] 10 00:01:34,083 --> 00:01:36,416 [ringing continues] 11 00:01:40,833 --> 00:01:42,708 -[Claire Koger] Hello. -[man] Hello, Claire. 12 00:01:42,791 --> 00:01:44,708 -This is Mr Green. - [Koger] Mr Green. Yes. 13 00:01:44,833 --> 00:01:47,833 - [Sam Green] Is Ms Garbo there? -No, I'm awfully sorry, she's out. 14 00:01:47,916 --> 00:01:49,666 She won't be back, 15 00:01:49,750 --> 00:01:52,875 er, not before 12:00. 16 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,791 - [Sam] Not before 12:00? -No. 17 00:01:54,875 --> 00:01:57,708 [Sam] All right. Well, I'll try her a little after 12:00, then. 18 00:01:57,791 --> 00:02:00,291 -Thank you very much. Goodbye. -Bye-bye. 19 00:02:01,416 --> 00:02:02,958 [telephone hangs up] 20 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 {\an8}[soft jazz playing] 21 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 [soft music plays] 22 00:04:23,583 --> 00:04:25,500 [narrator] Greta Garbo… 23 00:04:26,125 --> 00:04:29,541 Sounds kind of familiar, right? 24 00:04:30,791 --> 00:04:32,875 A Hollywood icon. 25 00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:37,458 A poster girl from the Golden Age of Cinema. 26 00:04:38,916 --> 00:04:40,916 But as the years pass, 27 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,708 her fanbase gets smaller. 28 00:04:44,625 --> 00:04:46,958 And like all once greats, 29 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:50,916 she'll become just 30 00:04:51,583 --> 00:04:53,416 an iconic image. 31 00:05:01,208 --> 00:05:03,958 We all have our time here on Earth. 32 00:05:05,333 --> 00:05:07,791 The greats today will one day be forgotten. 33 00:05:09,333 --> 00:05:12,791 Only a few will achieve success so great 34 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:15,375 they'll be remembered long after they're gone. 35 00:05:16,166 --> 00:05:17,958 But as time passes, 36 00:05:18,625 --> 00:05:20,416 so does the truth. 37 00:05:21,541 --> 00:05:23,333 And what we are left with 38 00:05:24,083 --> 00:05:25,625 is a myth. 39 00:05:26,541 --> 00:05:28,041 In her time, 40 00:05:28,125 --> 00:05:32,416 Garbo was the most famous woman in the world, 41 00:05:33,083 --> 00:05:36,333 smashed all the glass ceilings 42 00:05:36,416 --> 00:05:39,458 and became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, 43 00:05:40,833 --> 00:05:43,708 the highest-earning actor of her time. 44 00:05:44,833 --> 00:05:47,208 And the most extraordinary part 45 00:05:48,416 --> 00:05:50,875 is that she came from nothing. 46 00:05:54,916 --> 00:05:56,958 [people talking indistinctly] 47 00:05:57,041 --> 00:05:58,791 [dramatic orchestral music plays] 48 00:06:03,875 --> 00:06:07,041 A real rags-to-riches story. 49 00:06:07,125 --> 00:06:09,250 Overcoming childhood poverty, 50 00:06:09,333 --> 00:06:13,291 lining up at food banks, relying on handouts. 51 00:06:13,375 --> 00:06:17,125 Garbo went on to be scouted to model while working at a department store. 52 00:06:17,208 --> 00:06:21,500 And the rest, as they say, is history. 53 00:06:21,583 --> 00:06:23,416 {\an8}[brooding music plays] 54 00:06:25,875 --> 00:06:28,166 [narrator] No one came close to commanding the power 55 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:30,041 that she held in Hollywood. 56 00:06:31,208 --> 00:06:33,916 {\an8} She could have done anything she wanted. 57 00:06:35,083 --> 00:06:37,958 But at the absolute height of her fame, 58 00:06:39,166 --> 00:06:40,875 she disappeared. 59 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,833 {\an8} One day, the world's biggest star. 60 00:06:45,666 --> 00:06:48,666 {\an8} The next day… gone. 61 00:06:49,916 --> 00:06:54,125 {\an8} Why she stopped and where she went 62 00:06:54,208 --> 00:06:57,750 have remained a mystery to this day. 63 00:06:59,541 --> 00:07:01,375 [brooding music plays] 64 00:07:11,875 --> 00:07:14,583 {\an8}[Joan Crawford] When a queen gives up her throne, 65 00:07:14,666 --> 00:07:17,208 {\an8} she becomes a private person. 66 00:07:17,291 --> 00:07:22,541 She frees herself from all the myths and legends that burden majesty. 67 00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:25,250 She gradually passes into history. 68 00:07:26,833 --> 00:07:29,000 But a film star like Greta Garbo 69 00:07:29,083 --> 00:07:31,500 finds that her stardom will not let people forget her. 70 00:07:33,666 --> 00:07:36,750 What is the Garbo legend? 71 00:07:40,958 --> 00:07:44,041 [Stig Björkman] Why would one of the world's most famous 72 00:07:44,125 --> 00:07:46,833 and most talented actresses 73 00:07:47,291 --> 00:07:49,208 just stop like that? 74 00:07:49,625 --> 00:07:51,458 [Björn Vingård] She was a clever lady, 75 00:07:51,541 --> 00:07:53,708 and she had decided to withdraw from publicity 76 00:07:53,791 --> 00:07:57,083 and from public life, and that was it. 77 00:07:57,958 --> 00:08:03,125 [Lena Einhorn] Everybody else just wanted to make more movies and stay on top, 78 00:08:03,208 --> 00:08:05,208 and she just wanted to get out of there. 79 00:08:05,291 --> 00:08:09,333 [Maria Lundell] She never thinks she's gonna be a big star like she became. 80 00:08:09,416 --> 00:08:13,250 She wanted to be like anyone else. She just wanted to act. 81 00:08:13,958 --> 00:08:17,375 [Scott Reisfield] It was obvious to everybody in the industry 82 00:08:18,291 --> 00:08:21,708 that she was going to be transformative. 83 00:08:29,708 --> 00:08:31,916 She is perfectly charming. 84 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 -Very humorous, very conscientious. -Mmm. 85 00:08:35,083 --> 00:08:38,708 {\an8}Not very happy and genuinely shy. 86 00:08:38,791 --> 00:08:41,708 {\an8}-[interviewer] Were you competitors? -No. 87 00:08:41,791 --> 00:08:44,375 Nobody was ever a competitor. 88 00:08:44,458 --> 00:08:46,416 -[interviewer] Is that true? -Not with Garbo, no. 89 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,208 -[interviewer] Oh. -No. 90 00:08:49,416 --> 00:08:50,666 No, no. 91 00:08:53,250 --> 00:08:59,916 {\an8}She had a real mystique and a real, real gift for movie acting. 92 00:09:00,541 --> 00:09:03,916 You don't become that famous for no reason. 93 00:09:04,333 --> 00:09:09,750 Maybe to a young generation now, who are into films, 94 00:09:09,833 --> 00:09:11,833 Garbo is just a name. 95 00:09:11,916 --> 00:09:15,333 {\an8}When I went to Stockholm years ago, they showed me in their… 96 00:09:15,416 --> 00:09:17,875 {\an8}in their film institute there, 97 00:09:17,958 --> 00:09:23,125 {\an8}two commercials for bread that she made to be shown in movie theatres. 98 00:09:23,208 --> 00:09:25,208 There was this great galumphing… 99 00:09:27,250 --> 00:09:29,708 -Swedish cow… -[laughter] 100 00:09:30,458 --> 00:09:32,833 …having a picnic. There was nothing to show you 101 00:09:32,916 --> 00:09:35,125 that you were looking at the most divine creature 102 00:09:35,208 --> 00:09:36,541 who would ever be on the screen. 103 00:09:36,625 --> 00:09:38,500 And two years later, she was Greta Garbo. 104 00:09:39,291 --> 00:09:42,125 Now, I have no explanation whatsoever for that. 105 00:09:43,083 --> 00:09:44,625 [brooding music plays] 106 00:09:54,125 --> 00:09:58,291 Act One, June 21st, 1925. 107 00:09:58,666 --> 00:10:01,583 A small tearoom in Stockholm, Sweden. 108 00:10:01,666 --> 00:10:04,250 Sat in the back of a busy café, 109 00:10:04,333 --> 00:10:09,041 a young Greta excitedly writes a letter to her best friend, Mimi Pollak. 110 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:11,208 [soft music plays] 111 00:10:18,208 --> 00:10:19,375 {\an8}[Garbo] Darling, Mimi, 112 00:10:20,083 --> 00:10:23,750 {\an8} a few days ago Stiller called me for the first time in months 113 00:10:23,833 --> 00:10:26,250 and informed me about the trip to America. 114 00:10:27,375 --> 00:10:30,333 How I would have loved to talk to you before this. 115 00:10:32,083 --> 00:10:34,250 If you knew how good it feels to have a person 116 00:10:34,375 --> 00:10:36,125 who's so sweet towards me. 117 00:10:37,958 --> 00:10:41,083 You're the only one, darling, that I have really talked to 118 00:10:41,583 --> 00:10:43,458 about what hurts. 119 00:10:44,916 --> 00:10:47,750 Thank you for everything you've done and been for me. 120 00:10:48,541 --> 00:10:50,500 Until we'll meet again. 121 00:10:51,041 --> 00:10:53,000 Don't forget me. 122 00:11:00,541 --> 00:11:03,333 {\an8}[Lundell] My grandmother, she was from a rich family, 123 00:11:03,791 --> 00:11:06,750 {\an8} but Greta, she was in a poor family. 124 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:10,916 {\an8}They met when they were 12, 13 years old. 125 00:11:12,458 --> 00:11:14,625 {\an8}They were close, very, very close. 126 00:11:15,666 --> 00:11:20,000 When they don't have school, they go outside and… [inhales] 127 00:11:20,083 --> 00:11:24,166 They picked up cigarettes from the ground and smoked. 128 00:11:24,833 --> 00:11:26,208 Oh, my...