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Lot 1349:
[Greta Garbo]
Doc 3.5° × 4.5" 5p 1951-1960
New York File Entertainment
A Swedish born actress whose haunting qualities were well employed in tragic roles. After coming to America, she became the Hollywood love goddess of the Twenties and Thirties but became a recluse after a 1941 film "Two-Faced Woman" failed. Among her best films are "Camille",
"Ninotchka" and "Anna Karenina"
Greta Garbo’s savings account bank passbook with a picture of Teddy Roosevelt on the front
Description:
Her passbook, kept for an account she maintained in trust for her brother, Sven Gustaffson at The Roosevelt Savings Bank (Brooklyn), five leaves + covers, 3.5" x 4.5", kept between July 12, 1951 and April 11, 1960. Offered together with a 8.5" × 3.5" receipt noting the deposit of the same funds ($6,393.18) into her account with The Chase Manhattan Bank on April 12, 1960. Light marginal wear, cancellation punches, else very fine condition overall.
According to her grand-niece, Garbo, who had experienced the bank failures of the Great Depression, kept her funds in a wide variety of bank
accOunts.
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