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Timeline continuted...
August 30, 1935 - Anna Karenina is released. Garbo will win the New York Films Critics Award for her performance but does not receive an Academy Award nomination.
January 9, 1936 - John Gilbert dies at the age of 40 of a heart attack. Garbo is told the news in Sweden. She makes no public comments about his death.
May 1936 - Garbo returns to the U.S. from a seven month visit to Sweden. Production soon begins on her latest film, Camille.
January 22, 1937 -After a lengthy production with numerous retakes, Camille is released. Despite being ill during most of the shoot, Garbo's beauty is breathtaking in the film. She wins another New York Film Critics Award and is nominated for the Academy Award. She loses this time to Luise Rainer.
On the set of Camille with
director George CukorMarch 1937 - Filming begins on Conquest, the most expensive film of Garbo's career.
October 1937 - Garbo and composer Leopold Stokowski are romantically linked in the press.
November 4, 1937 - Conquest is released but fails to recoup its expenses.
December 1937 - Garbo leaves for Sweden again.
February 1938 - Garbo and Stokowski vacation together in Italy. After being besieged by the press, they hold a press conference in which Garbo denies marriage rumors and asked that they be left alone. They spend the next five months touring Europe.
Garbo and Stokowski are portrayed on a 1938 fan magazine cover.
As Ninotchka May 3, 1938 - An infamous advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter labels several big name stars, like Garbo and Marlene Dietrich "box office poison" claiming that their tremendous salaries do not reflect their ticket sales.
June 1939 - Garbo meets nutritionist Gayelord Hauser, who will become a major influence in her life. She begins work on Ninotchka.
October 1939 - As a result of World War II, MGM arranges to have Garbo's family sent to the United States.
November 9, 1939 - Ninotchka is released and is a triumphant success. Garbo will garner her final Academy Award nomination for the film. She will lose to Vivien Leigh for Gone With The Wind.
July 1940 - Garbo meets another man who will play a major role in her life - George Schlee, the husband of fashion designer Valentina.
November 1940 - Garbo signs a new contract with MGM calling for one film for $150,000.
June 1941 - Garbo begins work on her final film, Two Faced Woman. From day one, the production is plagued with censorship problems.
December 31, 1941 - Two Faced Woman is released. It receives the worst reviews of Garbo's career, is condemned by the Catholic Church (who later reduce their judgments after some changes are made) and does poorly at the box office.
On the set of Two Faced Woman, with
cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg
November 1942 - Garbo buys her first painting, a Renoir.
December 1942 - Garbo signs a new contract with MGM, under the same terms as the previous one, but it is canceled a month later because a project cannot be agreed upon.
July 1943 - Garbo has a brief affair with actor Gilbert Roland. Her relationship with George Schlee also intensifies.
Fall 1943 - There is talk of Garbo playing Joan of Arc in an English production, but plans fall through.
Traveling abroad with George Schlee