GARBO’S LIFE AS A BED BUG!
She scratched that itch with ANYONE
SCREEN siren Greta Garbo never wed or had kids, but she certainly didn’t want to be alone! A new book blows the lid off her torrid affairs with top showbiz guys and gals — straight, bisexual, married and gay!
Born to a struggling family in Stockholm in 1905, the reclusive Swedish dish, who died of pneumonia at 84 in New York in 1990, yearned to be an actress. She became Hollywood’s biggest star in the late 1920s until quitting at 36 after filming 1941’s Two-Faced Woman.
Her list of lovers is like a celebrity who’s who, according to author Robert Gottlieb’s new Garbo, which reports she bedded leading men John
Gilbert, Gilbert Roland and Orson Welles, gay photog Cecil Beaton, actresses Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks and blues singer Billie Holiday!
At 15, Garbo was so stunning, a producer got weak in the knees and nearly collapsed after seeing her.
The teen’s first lover was Swedish Olympic swimmer and playboy Max Gumpel, but her next may have been young Marlene Dietrich when they worked on the 1925 German flick The Joyless Street.
MGM then brought Garbo to Tinseltown, where she made 26 hits.
Her most famous affair was with John Gilbert.
Director Clarence Brown said the pair got so intense in love scenes for 1927’s Flesh and the Devil, “It seemed like an intrusion to yell ‘cut!’”
So he dismissed the crew and “let them finish what they were doing.”
Garbo tired of Gilbert, and after the heavy boozer died of a heart attack at 38 in 1936, she coldly claimed she’d only bedded him because she was “lonely.”
She was also hot ’n’ cold with Roland, who claimed she seduced him after he enlisted for World War II and gave him her panties as a memento.
Months later, when he got leave, she refused his calls.
Garbo also carried on a puzzling, three-decade affair with gay society photog Beaton, who boasted that “Curiously enough, [he] was one of the few people who gave her any physical satisfaction.”