Living Large In Greta Garbo's Former Pad

CBS2's Emily Smith has more.

[@geoffreyfox9801]

Garbo was smart about finances. She had good financial advice. She invested in properties and other things which continued to skyrocket in value. She was an amazing screen actress. However, she had dignity and class. She was independent and had the financial independence to do exactly as she wanted. She never had to make a comeback or pay back taxes, or do dog food or diaper commercials to make a living in her later years. She did not pop up on superficial and trashy talk shows. She was allergic to "bullshit" and would not take part in it.

[@sakarihirvonen2183]

Such a sophisticated palace...what a LADY!

[@alephnull7410]

A true artist in such a way that cannot even be currently imagined

[@katc2345]

Her legend will never die.

[@tlpricescope7772]

The river and boats probably reminded her of Stockholm.

[@alecvillavilla9978]

I agree with you. Besides, this seems to me the only plausible reason for the Swedish goddess of cinema to leave her wonderful, native Stockholm for New York.

[@alvexok5523]

@@alecvillavilla9978 Stockholm also has a magnificent Grand hotel. And since Stockholm is where Garbo is originally from, wasn't the Grand hotel in her film of the same name supposed to be at the Grand hotel in Stockholm?

[@alecvillavilla9978]

@@alvexok5523 I think the Grand Hotel of her 1932 film was the one in Berlin, demolished in 1957.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

@@alvexok5523 As a tourist in Europe, just wanted to say that there are, or were, many Grand Hotels all across Europe. I saw one in Switzerland, another in Germany, and one in France....

[@TheJking85]

"I want to be alone." GG was never alone in that palace. She had friends and family coming in and out of that place all the time.

[@alecvillavilla9978]

Indeed. Plus, she actually never uttered that sentence, what she did say was "I want to be left alone".

[@markrogers3336]

'I never said I want to be alone ... but that I want to be let alone ... there is all the difference.' Greta Garbo

[@y-4-n-4]

I just read "Walking with Garbo" and I think she actually did not allow many people to enter her home.

[@akrenwinkle]

Yes, Garbo's "pad" as the idiotic title describes her home, was bustling with activity. Okay, but seriously... you're making things up. Unless a lot of people are lying, and her own letters that were auctioned are lying, Garbo preferred being alone and, except for the occasional visitor and vacation trip, spent her life alone.

[@aaronying4989]

@@markrogers3336I still don’t really understand the difference in quotes? What did she truly mean.

[@stephenwilliams1269]

This apartment is very classy unlike many of the Hollywood set who adore it with too much glitzy. Clearly her Swedish sensibility and personal style makes this so wonderful.

[@MsRan59]

Oh how beautiful...I've always adored Ms.Garbo...such a beautiful lady and actress. If I had the money I'd buy this place and cherish it. It would remain exactly what its suppose too. Greta Garbo's home... I've seen all her movies, and only dreamed to be like her. She is missed dearly....and I personally what to thank her niece for keeping it...so all of us fan know in our hearts that there is a piece of her still living.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

Garbo's talent and beauty afforded her the means necessary to later live life on her own terms. That's heartening to know.

[@bettym.3996]

First time I've appreciated anything in pink decor.

[@andersliljevall2946]

She had a good sense of art

[@andrewbrendan1579]

This apartment is so well decorated and furnished and has such a great view that I could happily stay indoors there for days and not feel cramped or confined. Even when the apartment was originally half its present size I would think it would be easy to stay there for long periods of time.

[@XX-gy7ue]

I don't understand why the price on that apartment is so low compared to other comprable apartments in Manhattan , and add to that - THERE WAS ONLY ONE GARBO , and the apartment is also perfect ?

[@arctouros]

That's embarrassing. Go get it.

[@mdarrenu]

Condo fees.

[@akrenwinkle]

"Fetch me a whiskey." I love it! He never saw the famous scene, knows absolutely nothing about Garbo except how it affects the value of the property.

[@paolazuffinetti]

No words can describe the sweet sensation that looking at this apartment can evoke. It feels "the Angel" is still with us, living in this dimension. By now, the home has another owner, but it is an important document for it is the only tangible thing we have of GG, besides her movies. You won't be forgotten, Greta Lovisa. ❤️

[@jimjimmyjames59]

Pretty sure neither of the presenters have seen a Garbo film.

[@akrenwinkle]

"Fetch me a whiskey" proves that.

[@EricCanterra]

I barely recognize the place, actually. The furniture is COMPLETELY different....all the French antiques she loved are gone. The bar was not there, was added after her death. I realize that living there since the 50s, much had to be updated to sell the apartment, venetian old-style blinds, etc., but I actually liked it better the way Garbo had it all assembled. She bought what she liked and she had A LOT of it crammed in there....all beautiful, of course. Garbo would barely recognize this modernization of her place, that's for sure.

[@Scorchy666]

Agreed, this is a bit misleading. That spare room with twin beds looks like a tacky motel room. I know a huge Garbo estate auction was held a few years back. I doubt Garbo would collect dozens of different biographies about herself and display them in the living room.

[@constancedenchy9801]

Thank you

[@gingerlord4983]

​@@Scorchy666 You didn't know her.

[@icarryamessage]

The things this real estate agent says makes me cringe lol !!!!

[@FutureWarrenBuffett]

If Enigma had a face it would've been Greta Garbo throughout her life & beyond. Pure Classy Legendary Megastar. Greta Garbo I Salute You. 🙏🏻👑

[@DCFunBud]

It's too bad the tour guide did not know then names of the artists, Soutine and Modigliani.

[@da96103]

Estate agent.

[@jayneweaver8695]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@morganfisherart]

He didn’t even know the exact year she died. I mean come on - do your damn homework!

[@neofils]

Typical american mindset , all about the value and money , not much about the art itself.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

In this instance it's completely reasonable that the video about Garbo's apartment has an emphasis on "...value and money": the apartment and its contents were for sale and were being shown not by an art critic or teacher but by a real estate agent whose job it is to find a buyer.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

1:11 someone goofed here; Garbo's niece was 85 when she died in 2017 just a few months after this video was uploaded.

[@dougstotts9760]

It’s ‘give me a whiskey’ not fetch me....she would have cringed knowing that guy was parading through her house cracking jokes.

[@loboestepario2424]

The realtor probably didn't know who Garbo was before being asked to sell the apartment.

[@hellofellas5661]

I wish I could live like greta garbo...

[@glennsepulveda4856]

MaGarbo is a Filipino word rooted from and coined after the great, iconic actress, it means lavish and or luxurious..just like the way the Hollywood legend lived her life..

[@bonifaciomagdiwang1697]

MaGarbo talaga at ang ganda ni Greta.

[@acapulcoramon7601]

the trolls underneath the couches are not to be seen........

[@songbirdy]

Only a true fan gets your comment!

[@craigster1244]

acapulco ramon -I’ll always remember that what a friend said about that in an interview.

[@berjaboy]

There was a drama going on underneath that sofa.

[@scotnick59]

@@songbirdy YES!

[@scotnick59]

Actually, after seeing this, I feel less sorry for her living alone as she did: hey, she lived in luxury!

[@JSB1882]

She really was never alone. She visited friends, dinner engagements, traveled,.., she was just through being a star.

[@songbirdy]

@@JSB1882 yes! People think she lived like Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. Just not true!

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"actually"

[@marjoriemargel1567]

@@JSB1882 Dave La Violette Yes, very true! From what I have read, she travelled every year, had VIP close friends the world over for decades. Had to be very respectful of her privacy....and often pay for everything!

[@MediaLover194]

[on her famous Grand Hotel (1932) quote] I never said, "I want to be alone". I only said, "I want to be left alone". There is a whole world of difference.

[@gloriahanes6490]

2:12 Amedeo Modigliani, an Italian Jew, a true original which depicts the elongated neck which he was famous for in (all) his paintings. This was a painting of his wife as she posed for many of his paintings. Amedeo Modigliani lived in the time of Picasso and died before he realized he was famous. Many artists are famous in death and worth little in life. His life was a personal struggle, but he lives in the minds of those who adore him for his raw energy and unique interpretation of the human form.

[@jstokes]

I was going to mention that as the tour guide of the apartment did not-and I then saw your comment. Yes! Thank you!

[@elyon1421]

I dont think Greta would love the idea that you guys invaded her sanctuary even for a moment 😅

[@songbirdy]

It was done with permission of her family. They guarded her privacy throughout her life. I think they sold it. That makes me sad.

[@JulesMercerTunez]

@@songbirdy the fact that they didn't sell it for decades shows how much they cared. At a certain point it becomes a burden

[@susanbrogan3267]

So what.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

News flash - she's dead therefore she's not going to know.

[@da96103]

@@jamesmcinnis208 Actually she's not dead, you watched Death Becomes Her? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpCVlH6Nfb15btE

[@vicalexander3179]

Greta Garbo took Sir Anthony Quinn with her to buy some Picasso's. She bought all of them! Then she turned to Sir Anthony Quinn and said something, "Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted to buy one too." And he said, "No, I don't want to be Pope, I .. I." Then he realized that it had nothing to do with his movie SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN. And Greta said to Sir Anthony Qulinn, "Tony, how selfish of me, you can buy the pink one." And he said, "No, no, I can't buy the Pink One." And in her inimitable way said, "I know you're not a fairy, you must buy it, Tony." And he said, "Okay, I'll buy it." He wrote the auctioneer a post-dated check. He went to his house and sold it for $50,000 just to buy the painting not to break Greta Garbo's heart. Sir Anthony Quinn then had to go back and take whichever part Hollywood producers offered him. Today, Sir Anthony Quinn's most valuable possession is the 'Pink' Pablo Picasso painting which Greta Garbo insisted he buy it. He has donated it so it hangs in one of Mexico's national museums for all Mexican museum visitors would remember the greatest Spanish painter in history -- Vic Alexander, Son of Nimrod the Jewish Producer of great movies.

[@jabjab4434]

That's a lovely story

[@leiutley4083]

Beautiful actress beautiful home

[@claytondefreitas4124]

She lived how she wanted no fuss Garbo was a realist

[@julesmonteith1613]

It's a nice apartment, but the lounge looks like a hotel lobby.

[@Lommy9999]

What a beautiful home. These two were tacky and it felt invasive. Would have been better without trying to imitate her ordering a drink, not sounding like her at all.

[@larasemerad2605]

Wow-Garbo apartment-Thanks for sharing. I love her movies still.

[@joejoebrian1014]

I named my dog Garbo because she is the most beautiful dog I've ever seen. So naturally I named her after the original queen of the screen. Greta Garbo

[@velveetafromage]

Hmm

[@J.LOudin]

Her dogs call Laurel and Hardy 😂

[@gatewayz75]

Fabulous but that traffic noise and pollution immediately below ! Triple glazing I guess

[@da96103]

2:11 Is that a Modigliani? Holy moly.

[@saroloucks7031]

I was named after her my name is Greta!! (This is my moms account)

[@richardc7869]

Now that... is style!! ❤️

[@davidmorris6443]

I wonder how much Katharine Hepburn's townhouse must cost now that she doesn't own it

[@danhoffman7979]

I only hope, that whoever gets this amazing home, leaves it alone. Ms. Garbo, deserves respect. If Only!!!

[@alessandragregori1518]

Tutto questo ci ricorda che tutto è nulla. Come dice il Siracide: Vanità delle Vanità.

[@sharksport01]

The news anchors are just as sickening as the smarmy estate agent .

[@AaronOBryan60]

It’s incredible how must respect it’s given..

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

It sold for $8.5 Million.

[@sapphire74-74]

I was thinking 6mill isn't all that much these days but 8mill really isn't either. Do you know what the new owner is planning? (As in keep as is or redecorate?)

[@fredosinsemilla3896]

@@sapphire74-74 you are jewish right?

[@sapphire74-74]

@@fredosinsemilla3896 strange question. No I'm not Jewish. Why?

[@songbirdy]

Sapphire 74 it's not Park Ave. its a smaller building close to Sutton Place on 52nd. Garbo lived frugally all her life. She was worth 20 mil when she died. not bad for someone who hadn't worked in 50 years.

[@michaelgaynor6866]

@@fredosinsemilla3896 ,asks Fredo Sinsemilla! Or is in Frito?

[@bnkundwa]

She was once the woman I wanted to look like.

[@jari2018]

Greata had a sense of pattern and colour.

[@sa010as]

I want to be alone and want to spend rest of my life in this house.

[@carlosdesuchil]

Superb!!

[@robinranney1171]

Great style.she had sweds have practical style.but functionality my late grandmother house was like this and she was also Swedish.

[@evah5997]

Its sad that the family doesnt. Want it. Sad

[@iampuzzleman282]

Not a very high floor and probably heard a lot of noise from the highway. That probably wasn't very pleasant

[@Handiman544]

Nine million to live there??? What decade was that? LOL That's probably what a down payment would be today, not that anyone who could afford this would make payments.

[@numerikproductions]

Wow! I thought even famous actresses didn't make that much money, she must have stood her grounds.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

She did! From what I've read about Greta Garbo she was known for being very well paid. Maybe someone reading the comments has a better recollection than I do of Garbo/Mayer encounter and can confirm or deny this but here goes: I read that Greta Garbo met with Louis B. Mayer about wanting more money. He refused. Garbo said, "I think I go home now", meaning her home in Hollywood. Mayer thought Garbo meant she was going back to Sweden and gave her more money!

[@sapphire74-74]

Is it true she bought the flat next door and eventually owned the whole floor so no one had a reason to go there?

[@songbirdy]

Sapphire 74 she had the whole floor but it was a rather smaller building for NYC. she did a lot of renovating and I'm sure she valued the complete privacy she had by doing it this way. the way the public hounded her all her life this was an ideal situation for her.

[@dannycarrington1601]

It's a common practice in New York to purchase neighboring apartments to create one large apartment; sometimes several floors are combined to create a duplex or triplex.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

Nice place, but I would rather look out my window and see some trees and green grass. Everybody is different though.

[@songbirdy]

I am sure the East River reminded her of being back home in Sweden which is surrounded largely by water. Its the atmosphere she grew up in.

[@hadlowkent1]

@@songbirdy true, but more likely that her “friends” George Schlee and Valentina lived a few floors above and vouched for her residency. She depended on them in making her move to NYC at the beginning. George was a close companion until he died.

[@citytrees1752]

She didn't live there 'most of her adult life'. She lived elsewhere until her 50s.

[@loboestepario2424]

2:11 you bet is more expensive than the apartment, looks like a Modigliani.

[@strawberryseason]

What is the valuable painting at 2:12?

[@loboestepario2424]

A Modigliani.

[@gloriahanes6490]

Amedeo Modigliani.

[@normadesmond6017]

I love these movie stars of the golden age of Hollywood. They had style... And I always have a bit of a problem with these private video's. This was her home. This was her bedroom. Is it oppropriate for us to look at that? Aiiii... But bless her. She was truly one of the greatest of all time

[@maureenlongfellow883]

I thought I was then only one that pinked up her house.

[@asteverino8569]

Glad I am not swayed by $$$ signs. Love the New York apartment though.

[@Lazcomeforth]

Wonder if IKEA furniture creators took lessons in minimizing from her.

[@anoniem7156]

So bohemian love it

[@rubydawn1]

her life as amazing as her films

[@chasenip2]

Impeccable taste! Simply, stunning!

[@carolking6355]

It’s perfection but not to my taste.

[@italopellegrino6122]

think about these artists: they work for ten, maximum fifteen or twenty years and then they can live sumptuously on an income

[@Booklivre]

What is the name of the man ( male tour guide ) who is showing her the apartment !?!

[@andrewbrendan1579]

The man showing Greta Garbo's apartment is Brian Lewis.

[@marjoriedickinson9481]

Wow class

[@ppppmmmm7809]

Stunning I can only dream of living in such beauty

[@susanbrogan2517]

She seemed to like books about herself for someone that wanted to be left alone.She liked the attention it brought her.

[@riverafranzjethrod.5272]

If you see the books on that shelf on a photo online and this shelf now you see a difference. I think some of the book i that shelf are publish after her death and just bought by the family to keep her memory alive.

[@susanbrogan3267]

@@riverafranzjethrod.5272 Thank you for the comment. I was not aware of that.

[@riverafranzjethrod.5272]

@@susanbrogan3267 your welcome, i know it because greta garbo does not want to rember her hollywood past that when she is hanging out or taking a look for antiques in the dalva brothers antiques she does not want to be called MS. GARBO but she wanted to be called MS. BROWN. In my mind the original books in that bookshelf was included in the sotheby's auction. P.s. after the apartment was sold all of the furniture was sold to 1stdibs.

[@alephnull7410]

Oh god, having “Garbo” books in a bookshelf in her apartment is sacrilege. Even having these two mincing around the house you’d need to hire an exorcist just for the apartment. Here’s the inconvenient facts, Greta Garbo would never live in that apartment or NYC altogether if the city was back then what it is now, i.e., a real estate flipping market. She had a home.

[@cecileannep.8341]

It looks quite sad and it's grey outside...

[@DCFunBud]

What happened to the inflatable Santa Claus?

[@sheilasoman4702]

DCFunBud It was sold along with her other private possessions at Julien’s auction.

[@robertc.johnson310]

CBS/ New York, I would take her Luxurious Pad over Dowton Abbey if I could afford it. She lived Large and Well you might say. RCJ/LEO

[@francospecchia9283]

🇮🇹 FROM ITALY,,,,IF SHE SEEN THESE PERSONS ,,,,IN HER HOME,,,,SHE WOULD TAKE A SHOT!!!!

[@alessandragregori1518]

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[@francospecchia9283]

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[@francospecchia9283]

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[@iampuzzleman282]

I want to see the bedroom

[@totisantiago1]

Greta Garbo lived frugally - not like other Hollywood stars -

[@thesolitude]

Nice

[@wiskery_turtle1965]

I wish the other side of her family got the home then I could go visit

[@matta8931]

It may be expensive but I did not like it.

[@estellas9409]

How charming how those distant relatives without any own achievements, sell out everything that once was hers. They must be really broke to sell out like that.

[@theflyinhawaiiantravels354]

U got to divide it up, honey!! Hurry up!! I got some traveling to do!!

[@cnd380sec]

You make no sense. She bequeathed her apartment to her niece. She can do what she wants with it!

[@Scorchy666]

Guess what? Units like Garbo's still have building fees and property taxes. Not to mention the heirs have to pay an inheritance tax.

[@stephen1922]

@@Scorchy666 If they kept it without changing hands, the property tax would be very low if it remained assessed on the original purchase price.

[@tomschmitz5745]

personally i think the view is "depressing"...do not know that much about nyc but was/is the east side less crowded, not as "hip and fashionable" and more secluded along the east river and that is why she chose it?

[@desolationangel5136]

Probably not depressing to her, might have reminded her of Stockholm.

[@lidijabasanovic9779]

Only downside is that its flowers empty. She was lazy, didnt want to deal with living things. Eww

[@kimbradley9595]

I wish I could afford that love her

[@Wayne-ou5ps]

Why so Cheap....

[@Rudipolt]

Aloha

[@whitelove5658]

too cheap.

[@davidmorris6443]

there making her apt into a shrine and before they ever raise the price on that apartment she must have got it for Less so now they up the ante on the apartment because it was owned by Greta Garbo I wonder what Katherine Hepburn townhouse must cost now that she moved out

[@mistayu]

She bought it in 1953 for $38,000.00

[@EricCanterra]

@@mistayu + Then she did tens of thousands in serious renovations. She had excellent taste in furnishings, decor and art.

[@stephen1922]

@Pat Kat Exquisite. Inflate that to today, and imagine buying an apartment like this for that price. The reality is people had far more opportunity back then, when the population was much less and possibility for each person was much more. Those days of opportunity are long gone. The only reason her estate was valued so high was because of all the inflation that occurred by the time she died. I wonder what kind of property tax or maintenance she even paid, if the costs stayed assessed on that low purchase price- probably very little.

[@dmtryledesma8590]

Herzlichen

[@qualqui]

Greta Garbo, what a babe! Beauty and exquisite taste in the good life! :D

[@constancedenchy9801]

Her neice is probably the love child she hid

[@tlpricescope7772]

No it was her brother’s child

[@davidmorris6443]

oh god give me a break please !!!!!!!

[@stringer-ik1pc]

Horrible views.it looks like hull.

[@Grimmmer]

The views are said to have reminded her of the views from her tenement building as a poor child in Sweden.

[@missthunderstormable]

i dont like the flat

[@brainey001]

I mean it is big but the style and location makes it kinda look extremely dull and ghetto compared to todays standards of overpaid hollywood starts.... That being said i understand for it's time it was considered luxury

[@radarou79]

It’s next to the United Nations. It’s actually a really nice area.

[@tzarinavictoria3531]

What a waste of a home, which should be used

[@Scorchy666]

Apartments in New York are quite cheap right now under Covid. Even Manhattan at the moment.