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Greta Garbo

The casual visitor

Garbo’s friendship has often been used to make revealing statements about her. This is also the surest way of breaking all ties with her. Today the wall of silence nearest to her is just as high in New York as in her remotely situated residence in Klosters, Switzerland or among her sophisticated circles on the Riviera as among her relatively many Swedish friends.

One of those whom she meets now and then is Kerstin Bernadotte, well-known in Sweden as a journalist and through her marriage with Carl-Johan Bernadotte, a son of Sweden’s ruling monarch. They now live in Paris where this photo of Garbo and Mrs Bernadotte was snapped.

A few years ago Kerstin Bernadotte called a dancing school, according to a well-known Stockholm dancing teacher, to arrange lessons for a friend. No one else was allowed to be present at the lessons, which were also to be kept secret. The pupil was Garbo. She is said to have danced enthusiastically.

Get-away

Garbo, in Sweden for the first time in thirteen years, makes a quick get-away from the press at the Stockholm airport in Kerstin Bernadotte’s car (1961).

Another long-time friend is artist Einar Nerman who is seen here taking a walk with Garbo in Stockholm.

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