To say “conflictive” could be an understatement. On the time Mayer was operating the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Greta Garbo was essentially the most well-known actress in Hollywood, and but one of the crucial unknown. The general public wasn’t even positive she was an actual reside lady. Many believed it was a cartoon, and the journal “Scrapbook” received to assert she was having an affair with Mickey Mouse. (Walt Disney needed to make an official denial.) She had numerous character and didn’t bow to the necessities of the leisure business. Louis B. Mayer himself confessed in an interview that he was afraid of Garbo -he had put bars on all his home windows and wasn’t going anyplace with out a bodyguard. She had gotten within the behavior of slapping him each time she noticed him on the set, as a result of she didn’t like that anybody however the important technical staff witnessed her filming. Within the MGM Garbo did at all times precisely what she needed to do, and if Mayer dared to oppose, he obtained a number of slaps from her. Audiences have been entranced by Garbo and so have been movie critics, who used to explain her as a sorceress -which additional elevated Mayer’s apprehension. Certainly, the MGM chief govt was very superstitious. He believed all of the quack theories he heard of. For instance, he heard that getting off the bed on the incorrect foot was dangerous luck and, since he wasn’t positive of which was the incorrect foot, began to get off the bed throwing himself headfirst, which triggered him nice complications. He nonetheless attributed his complications to Garbo’s whims, to which he was pressured to present in as a result of in any other case she would make her famed comment “I feel I am going dwelling”. And Mayer couldn’t permit that to occur since Garbo was MGM foremost asset.
