Greta Garbo’s Letters—Up for Auction Next Week—Shed Light on Her Feelings About Fame
For someone so often in the Hollywood spotlight , Greta Garbo managed to persist impressively secret , a skill that only added to her enigmatical allure . Now , Swann Auction Galleries issellinga set of over 65 personal letters that Garbo write to friend and fellow actress Salka Viertel , which throw light on what was really go on behind those famous blue eyes . The letters , mostly write in English ( though four are in German ) and sweep from 1932 to 1973 , paint a portrait of an unquiet , spent woman who sometimes had misgivings about Hollywood and did n’t care purdah quite as much as her repute imply ....