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GRETA GARBO (personality) GRETA GARBO (personality) personality OR search current auctions Auction History Result 4d0200 GRETA GARBO 22x28 personality poster 1930s wonderful head & bare shoulders portrait at MGM! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Personality Poster (measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Greta Garbo was a legendary romantic Swedish actress from the 1924 to 1941 (she retired at the age of 35, still extremely popular, and lived in seclusion for many decades afterwards, living by her trademark expression, "I want to be alone"). Almost all other major leading ladies of the mid 1920s had their careers diminished or ruined by the coming of sound, but not Garbo, all the more remarkable because she was not native English-speaking and she had a strong accent. She first rose to prominence in a movie in her native Sweden, and then attracted the interest of Hollywood, but she would only sign a contract if they would sign her director as well, and MGM agreed! Some of her movies include: Ninotchka (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Queen Christina, Grand Hotel, Anna Christie (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Romance (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and Camille (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). Garbo passed away in 1990 at the age of 84. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned three examples of this personality poster, and one of them has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still only one of three examples we have ever auctioned! Also note that MGM created three different sets of personality posters in the 1930s to promote their stars. The first set had a vertical border at left and a horizontal border at the bottom, with a horizontal box at the left of it, and those posters were made in 1932. Two years later in 1934, they made a new set, and those have two similar borders, but with a large circle at bottom left. Two more years later in 1936, they made a new set, and those have a series of stars running down the left border with a different "METRO GOLDWYN MAYER" in the bottom left corner. Some of MGM's best stars were in both sets, so there are two different personality posters for those stars, with different images and borders. Movie studios created personality posters like these starting around 1915, and every few years they would issue a new set to promote their best stars, and theaters could order them to display when they showed those stars' movies. But few theaters ordered them (because they were much more expensive than posters), and fewer still saved them, so these posters are extremely rare! Note that these posters were printed on a high quality paper stock, but it is one that does not always age very well, and can become fragile (usually resulting in chips around the edges of the poster). Because of their fragile nature and their age, we always send these posters in large flat packages, and never roll them into tubes! PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER, UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE COST OF SHIPPING IT IN A LARGE FLAT PACKAGE! Condition: good to very good. The poster has small paper loss in the bottom right corner and some tiny nicks and tears around the edges. There are just a few creases scattered in the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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