A protracted six month contract dispute was resolved in June, 1927. Given this success, MGM tried to renegotiate its original three year contract with Greta Garbo. The Torrent, The Temptress and Flesh and the Devil accounted for 13% of the revenue generated by all MGM films produced during the 1925/26 production year. Her first American film was The Torrent, which premiered in March of 1926. Mayer, the president of MGM, signed Garbo to a contract after viewing Gosta Berling's Saga, and she moved to California in late 1925. Garbo's appearance in this film, and in the even more renown Joseph Pabst film Street of Sorrow in 1925, solidified her position as one of the premier actresses in Europe. The film was a critical and commercial success. In 1923 Garbo left the Academy to star in Mauritz Stiller's classic Gosta Berling's Saga, which premiered in 1924. Later that year she won a full scholarship to the Academy of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the training ground for nearly every Swedish actor. This WAS FOLLOWED BY her first film role in the comedy Peter the Tramp (1922). In 1920, she took a job as a salesperson at the leading Swedish department store, PUB, a job which led to her appearance in two advertising shorts for the store.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the youngest of three children of a working class family. She introduced what is now called method acting to the screen, and in twenty-eight films, twenty-five of them filmed in the United States, redefined the image of women on the screen. Her stunning beauty and style captured the hearts of millions. Biography Actress Greta Garbo had a greater impact on her craft than did any other actress in the 20th century.
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