Inside Greta Garbo’s explosive sex life — with Hollywood men and women
Garbo,” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which dishes on the busy love life and iconic film career of the shy girl from Stockholm who became Hollywood’s biggest star in the era when movies transitioned from silent to “talkies.” Born Greta Gustafsson in 1905 to a poor Swedish family — Gottlieb describes Garbo’s father as “a hardworking but unskilled laborer,” with some sources saying he was a “latrine cleaner” — Garbo (which she later adopted as her stage name) never liked school but loved the theater. She schlepped around Stockholm at night just to watch the actors go through the stage door, all part of her plan to become famous herself. “She was consumed by her determination to become not only an actress but a great star,” Gottlieb writes. In