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ALVA
Oct 5, 2005 17:33:12 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 5, 2005 17:33:12 GMT -5
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ALVA
Oct 5, 2005 17:46:36 GMT -5
Post by Marguerite on Oct 5, 2005 17:46:36 GMT -5
Wow! she was soo pretty maybe even prettier then GG is just to bad she died so young. What did she die off? I read she was born on September 20 and died on April 21 and GG was born September 18 and died april 15 . Very nice their birthdays were so close and so strange that there deaths were too.
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ALVA
Oct 5, 2005 18:58:26 GMT -5
Post by Fanatique on Oct 5, 2005 18:58:26 GMT -5
Tuberculosis.
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ALVA
Oct 5, 2005 19:05:34 GMT -5
Post by Marguerite on Oct 5, 2005 19:05:34 GMT -5
I read she died of limphatic cancer.
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ALVA
Oct 5, 2005 19:14:51 GMT -5
Post by Fanatique on Oct 5, 2005 19:14:51 GMT -5
Well limphatic cancer so ... I love your new avat by the way ..
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ALVA
Oct 6, 2005 6:21:50 GMT -5
Post by Marguerite on Oct 6, 2005 6:21:50 GMT -5
I just tcm n they say tuberculosis also. thanks about the avatar Fanatique.
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ALVA
Oct 6, 2005 8:25:41 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 6, 2005 8:25:41 GMT -5
Here's a book by Barry Paris...page 106-107---"It was more than moodiness. Voight's visit came within a few days of the most shattering blow of Garbo's adult life: the death of her sister Alva, at age twenty-three, in Stockholm. Stiller handed her a cablegram with the awful news on the fourth day of Temptress shooting. Alva's health had been poor for some time, but Garbo had not suspected how seriously ill she really was. She died not of tuberculosis, as is often reported, but of cancer, which family members say was aggravated by a blow to the chest from an abusive boyfriend. Upon hearing of it, Lillian Gish sent flowers to Garbo, who came to thank her later at her MGM set. "Tears came to her eyes," Gish recalled. "I couldn't speak Swedish so I put my arms around her and we both cried." Doomed, tragic Alva was a beauty to rival her sister. Her death came just as her own embryonic film career was beginning to take shape: Alva Gustafson had recently played her first featured role in the historical romance Tva konungar (Two Kings, 1925), directed by Elis Ellis in Stockholm. "My poor little sister," Garbo said later, with her habitual implication of their birth-order reversal. "I could hardly believe it. My sister was always so gay, so healthy, so beautiful! I always hoped she would come out to me in America. She had a try at pictures, and I believed in her future. I just couldn't believe she was dead-----until I came home (in 1928) and found her gone." The persistent claim that both Gustafson sisters appeared in Two Kings is unsubstantiated, and the film is lost. The confusion derives from a probable misquotion by Ake Sundborg in Photoplay, May 1930: "I have seen ( Two Kings) here in Stockholm. I see my dead sister live again on the screen, with me at her side!"
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ALVA
Oct 6, 2005 12:05:47 GMT -5
Post by Walewska on Oct 6, 2005 12:05:47 GMT -5
she was soo pretty maybe even prettier then GG She was pretty girl, but it's quite an exaggeration to say she was prettier that Greta... I can't believe you say that, Marguerite.
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ALVA
Oct 6, 2005 13:00:26 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 6, 2005 13:00:26 GMT -5
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ALVA
Oct 6, 2005 18:55:57 GMT -5
Post by Marguerite on Oct 6, 2005 18:55:57 GMT -5
Here's a book by Barry Paris...page 106-107---"It was more than moodiness. Voight's visit came within a few days of the most shattering blow of Garbo's adult life: the death of her sister Alva, at age twenty-three, in Stockholm. Stiller handed her a cablegram with the awful news on the fourth day of Temptress shooting. Alva's health had been poor for some time, but Garbo had not suspected how seriously ill she really was. She died not of tuberculosis, as is often reported, but of cancer, which family members say was aggravated by a blow to the chest from an abusive boyfriend. Upon hearing of it, Lillian Gish sent flowers to Garbo, who came to thank her later at her MGM set. "Tears came to her eyes," Gish recalled. "I couldn't speak Swedish so I put my arms around her and we both cried." Doomed, tragic Alva was a beauty to rival her sister. Her death cam just as her own embryonic film career was beginning to take shape: Alva Gustafson had recently played her first featured role in the historical romance Tva konungar (Two Kings, 1925), directed by Elis Ellis in Stockholm. "My poor little sister," Garbo said later, with her habitual implication of their birth-order reversal. "I could hardly believe it. My sister was always so gay, so healthy, so beautiful! I always hoped she would come out to me in America. She had a try at pictures, and I believed in her future. I just couldn't believe she was dead-----until I came home (in 1928) and found her gone." The persistent claim that both Gustafson sisters appeared in Two Kings is unsubstantiated, and the film is lost. The confusion derives from a probable misquotion by Ake Sundborg in Photoplay, May 1930: "I have seen ( Two Kings) here in Stockholm. I see my dead sister live again on the screen, with me at her side!" This is so sad. i received news of my fathers death in a similar GG did of her lovely sis so i can imagine how she felt. So it seems i was right she died of cancer and not of tuberculosis David thanks againg hun, but this time u made me cry. Walewska, maybe not prettier then GG but very close to GG.
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nils
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ALVA
Oct 7, 2005 6:22:40 GMT -5
Post by nils on Oct 7, 2005 6:22:40 GMT -5
What a pity, the movie "Two kings" is lost now... Perhaps, one day, someone will find it... Alva was very beautiful. It's true, she has something of the great Ingrid Bergman too.
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ALVA
Oct 7, 2005 10:22:23 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 7, 2005 10:22:23 GMT -5
Don't be sad! Alva and GG are together again in Heaven with God forever....dancing and singing! Her family are with her! John Gilbert, Stiller, and her friends, too! Imagine how wonderful beautiful heaven is the best home than on earth! Amen! ;D
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ALVA
Sept 6, 2006 12:24:39 GMT -5
Post by david on Sept 6, 2006 12:24:39 GMT -5
Hi garbo20, you checked this posts about Alva Garbo, you click it, will you? Thank alot!
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ALVA
Oct 28, 2006 15:19:18 GMT -5
Post by JOHN on Oct 28, 2006 15:19:18 GMT -5
Just before she died she had an offer to go to Russia and make films.
I think she was just starting a carreer of her own after beeing in some films with GG as a "stand in".
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