Greta Garbo Los Angeles on their own, but another five weeks passed with no contact from the studio. On the verge of returning to Sweden, she wrote to her boyfriend back home: "You're quite right when you think I don't feel at home here… Oh you lovely little Sweden, I promise that when I return to you my sad face will smile as never before." A Swedish friend in Los Angeles helped out by contacting MGM producer Irving Thalberg, who agreed to give Garbo a screen test. According to author Frederick Sands, "the result of the test was electrifying. Thalberg was impressed
Greta Schröder with struggling actor Ernst Matray, she was married to actor and film director Paul Wegener until his death in 1948. According to the Austrian writer Kay Weniger, Greta Schröder died in 1980, though some sources mention 1967. Greta Schröder Greta Schröder (27 June 1892 – 8 June 1980) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and Count Orlok's victim in the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu". In the fictionalized 2000 film, "Shadow of the Vampire", she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of "Nosferatu", but in fact she