Despite the legend that film star Greta Garbo never gave interviews – “I want to be left alone” – she did open up during the early part of her film career at MGM in the late 1920s. Later when she was well-established, she declined any efforts to speak about her life or her career. However, in her early years at MGM before she felt she was established, Garbo acceded to the studio’s insistence that the public wanted to know something about her.
The resulting few interviews found the star being candid about her life and upbringing. This interview from 1930 is perhaps her best and may well be the last interview she ever granted. We have scrupulously transferred her words from the printed page to an AI voice clone that captures her voice reasonably well. We have not invented any words that she was not actually quoted in the magazine interview.
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