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 Garbo was mailed to her home address. She twice received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for "Anna Karenina", 1935, and "Camille", 1936. She won the National Board of Review Best Acting Award for "Camille", 1936, "Ninotchka", 1939, and "Two-Faced Woman", 1941. The Swedish royal medal, Litteris et Artibus, awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art or literature, was presented to Garbo in January 1937. In a 1950 "Daily Variety" opinion poll, Garbo was voted Best Actress of the Half Century, In 1957, she was awarded The George Eastman Award,