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
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