Greta Garbo was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. She was the third and youngest child of Anna Lovisa (née Karlsson, 1872–1944), a housewife who later worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920), a laborer. Garbo had an older brother, Sven Alfred (1898–1967), and an older sister, Alva Maria (1903–1926). Her parents met in Stockholm, where her father had been visiting from Frinnaryd. He moved to Stockholm to become independent and worked in various odd jobs—street cleaner, grocer, factory worker and butcher's assistant. He married Anna, who had recently moved from Högsby. The Gustafssons were impoverished and lived in a
Leopold Stokowski until 1937 (two daughters: Gloria Luba Stokowski and Andrea Sadja Stokowski). In March 1938, Stokowski vacationed with Greta Garbo on the island of Capri in Italy. This followed other reports of romance between Stokowski and Garbo. Subsequently, Stokowski and Evangeline were divorced. Evangeline later married Prince Zalstem-Zalessky, a descendant of a Russian noble family who died in 1965, while Evangeline died at age 93 on June 17, 1990. Stokowski's third wife (1945–1955) was heiress and actress Gloria Vanderbilt (born 1924), by whom he had two sons, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born 1952). After he had achieved