Greta Garbo Services Will Be Private
Greta Garbo will be buried as she lived: privately and without fanfare.
Officials at New York Hospital said Monday that funeral services will be private. Spokeswoman Myrna Manners said the film great had been a dialysis patient at the hospital but she released no other information.
“Private means private and everyone should respect her wishes,” said longtime friend and neighbor Ben Buttenweiser.
The Swedish beauty, whose sculpted face and throaty, contralto voice helped make her an international star and one of the world’s most famous recluses, died Sunday at New York Hospital. She was 84.
Doormen at the building where she lived on East 52nd Street said they often shooed fans away over the years. But on Monday there were no fans with cameras and no flowers left behind, and no word on survivors.
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