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 Loebl Greta Loebl Greta Loebl Schreyer (July 28, 1917 – October 3, 2005), born Greta Loebl, was an Austrian-American, Jewish jewelry designer and painter. She survived the Holocaust and died in New York City. Greta Loebl was born in Vienna, Austria and followed in her father's footsteps at 18 to become a master goldsmith. Due to the Nazi occupation of Austria, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country in September 1938. While in Paris, France, they met a wealthy American who sponsored their affidavit for immigration to the U.S. They stayed in Paris until their visa applications to