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Acting

Greta Garbo

Career: Active from 1920 to 2012, with a break from 1964 to 1987, busiest in 1929 and 1931 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 34
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: Ninotchka
87/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Academy Honorary Award
1954 · Won
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1940 · Nominated · 12th Academy Awards
Ninotchka
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1938 · Nominated · 10th Academy Awards
Camille
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1930 · Nominated · 3rd Academy Awards
Romance
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1930 · Nominated · 3rd Academy Awards
Anna Christie, Romance
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1930 · Nominated · 3rd Academy Awards
Anna Christie
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 27 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Greta Garbo Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
0.5, average 5.4
Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Adrenaline
2.8, average 4.8
Scare
0.9, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Tragic Romance 5
Melodrama 5
Historical Drama 5
Forbidden Love 5
Class Conflict 4
Silent Era Romance 3
Sophisticated 3
Romantic Drama 3
Pre-Code Melodrama 2
Social Realism 2
Greta Garbo Performance 2
Classic Hollywood 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

49

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year

TV show

2010s

2 titles · average score 77

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

77

as (archive footage)

Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2000s

1 title · average score 67

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

67

as Queen Christina (archive footage)

1990s

3 titles

Stjärnbilder

as (archive footage)

Minns ni?

as (archive footage)

The Meeting of Two Queens

as (archive footage)

1980s

1 title

Stiller, Garbo & jag

as (archive footage)

1970s

2 titles · average score 66

The South Bank Show

63

TV show

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

1960s

3 titles · average score 66

Marlowe

67

as Grusinskaya(archive footage) (uncredited)

The Big Parade of Comedy

65

as Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)

30 Years of Fun

as (archive footage)

1950s

1 title

MGM Parade

TV show · as Self / self

1940s

1 title · average score 40

Two-Faced Woman

40

as Karin Borg Blake

1930s

16 titles · average score 70

Ninotchka

87

as Nina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova

Conquest

81

as Countess Marie Walewska

Camille

85

as Marguerite Gautier

Anna Karenina

77

as Anna Karenina

Queen Christina

78

as Christina

The Painted Veil

62

as Katrin Koerber Fane

Grand Hotel

75

as Grusinskaya

As You Desire Me

72

as Zara, a.k.a. Maria

Mata Hari

57

as Mata Hari

Susan Lenox

61

as Helga, aka Susan Lenox

Romance

50

as Rita Cavallini

Anna Christie

60

as Anna Christie

1920s

18 titles · average score 68

The Kiss

69

as Irene

The Single Standard

55

as Arden Stuart

A Woman of Affairs

68

as Diana Merrick

The Mysterious Lady

72

as Tania Fedorova

The Divine Woman

70

as Marianne

Love

73

as Anna Karenina

Flesh and the Devil

85

as Felicitas

Torrent

62

as Leonora Moreno

The Temptress

68

as Elena

Joyless Street

67

as Greta Rumfort

The Saga of Gösta Berling

68

as Elizabeth Dohna

Peter the Tramp

as Greta