Chasing Solitude: Greta Garbo’s Quest For Peace
How one of film history’s greatest legends wanted nothing to do with fame
18 min readSep 18, 2019
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Despite her ailing body and her elderly age, Greta Gustafsson loved to walk. The location — upstate New York, admist the villages in the Swiss Alps or her place of birth of Sweden — never mattered; she found herself happiest during her daily walks. And, despite…