Though there have been numerous biographies of Greta Garbo this is the first to fully investigate the two so-called missing periods in the life of this most mysterious & enigmatic of all the Hollywood stars. The first during the late 1920s when Garbo disappeared completely for several months forcing the studio employed a lookalike was almost certainly to conceal a pregnancy. The second occurred during World War Two when Garbo was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathisers. In Gr eta Garbo: Divi ne Star David Bret has acquired a large amount of previously unsourced material along with anecdotes from friends & colleagues of the star which have never before been published. For the first time he paints a complete portrait of her childhood & youth in Sweden. Bret has also sourced copies of all Garbos films
- with the exception Th e Divi ne Wom an of whicch no print survives
- including the silents before scenes were trimmed or cut. in addition the author met Garbo in Paris a few years before she died