Greta Garbo than $1 million at the box office, becoming one of the studio's biggest failures of the decade. Garbo's popularity had considerably dropped, and when her contract expired soon thereafter, she returned briefly to Sweden. On 3 May 1938, Garbo was among the many stars—including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Dolores del Río and others—dubbed to be "Box Office Poison" in an article published by Harry Brandt on behalf of the Independent Theatre Owners of America. After the box office failure of "Conquest", MGM decided a change of pace was needed to
Garbo (singer) winning the Critics Jury Award. He came back in Sanremo Festival the following year, with the song "Cose veloci". In 1993 Garbo founded his own record label, "Discipline", with which he published his later works. In 2006 Garbo was honored by a tribute album, "ConGarbo", in which his most famous songs were covered by some of the most important personalities of Italian independent music such as Baustelle, Delta-V, Krisma, Zu and Meg (former members of 99 Posse), Soerba, Andy (member of Bluvertigo) and Boosta (member of Subsonica). Garbo (singer) Renato Abate (born 25 April 1958), best known as Garbo, is