The Swedish actress Greta Garbo had an image of aloofness and mystique. She did not match the dulcet female ideal embodied by Hollywood stars such as Mary Pickford. Instead she was launched as an enigmatic and tragic femme fatale. Pictures of her face are today more well-known than her films. The Greta Garbo myth still lives, and is far bigger than the sum of Greta Gustafsson’s life and roles.