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The article stated its source as
Israel Lichtenstein, "social worker
and prominent author of Finland."
The report alleged that Greta
Garbo's real name was Gita
Levinsohn, her father was a poor
Jewish tailor of Helsingfors (the
Swedish name for Helsinki),
Finland, that she was discovered by
the famous movie director Mauritz
Stiller who had come to Finland to
visit his brother.
The story further claimed that
Stiller married Gita "in the presence
of her brother, the theologian," and
that later they went off to live in
Hollywood, where Gita Levinsohn
became Greta Garbo. When Stiller
died, the article said, he left Garbo
his entire fortune.
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was a
legendary figure in Hollywood, even
long after she left show business. The
story of her Jewish origin, is, howev-
er, less than legend; it is pure fiction.
In 1997, Simon & Schuster pub-
lished Karen Swenson's meticulously
researched biography, Greta Garbo: A
Life Apart. The book shows that
Garbo grew up not in Helsinki, but
Stockholm. Her parents were
Swedish Lutherans, Anna Lovisa and
Karl Alfred Gustafsson. Her father
was not a poor tailor, but a poor,
unskilled laborer.
Greta's original name was Greta
Lovisa Gustafsson, nicknamed Kata.
Her brother, Sven Alfred Gustafsson,
is not known to have been a theolo-
gian. Garbo did, however, have a
Jewish connection.
Garbo was already an actress in
Sweden when she met Mauritz
Stiller in Stockholm, not Helsinki,
in 1923. Stiller, born in 1883 in the
Jewish quarter of Helsinki (then part
of Russia), was originally Movscha,
known as Moshe or Moje, Stiller.
Stiller never married Garbo; in fact,
Garbo herself remained single.
Stiller and Garbo, however, developed
a very close relationship.
Stiller died in Stockholm in 1928.
One newspaper reported that he left half
of his estate to Garbo, but it never pro-
duced a will.
The fact is that Stiller left a sub-
stantial estate in Swedish and
American funds, but his film corn-
pany, Svensk Filmindustri, made a
successful claim on the bulk of it to
satisfy outstanding debts.
Stiller's brother and sister divided the
remainder of his American savings. 0

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