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Scott G. Reisfield
(Garbo's Grandnephew)



Original Name
Scott G. Reisfield

Scott 2005

Status
Married (His wife is called Cathy)

Date of Birth
Between 1956 -1958

Scott Reisfield attending Garbo's Funeral in 1999.

Place of Birth
USA

Scott's wife Cathy and his children
They attended Garbo's Funeral in 1999.
          

Children
Two children, a boy and a girl.

Scott and Robert Dance in  2005

Occupation
(in Treatment)

Trivia

 In 2005 he published the Garbo book “Portraits from her Private Collection”

 Scott is Greta's oldest Grand-Nephew.

 
Scott's Reisfield's 2005 Interview
scott reisfield greta garbo
Click  HERE to see an sequence of the Interview!
(in Treatment)

 
 
Scott Reisfield article/interview
 
Introduction

While promoting the book, Portraits from her Private Collection, Scott was interviewed several times in 2005 and 2006. This is one of the published articles.

The Swedish born Garbo had arrived in Culver City in the summer of 1925 and was at work by November on her first film The Torrent, in which she played a fiery Spanish dancer, which was an immediate popular and critical success. The publicity department was at first unsure of how to promote this ‘mysterious stranger' (who spoke little English) and planned a series of rather ill-judged publicity photographs. Don Gillum photographed her training with the UCLA athletes in a jersey and running shorts, flexing her muscles. In another session, she was posed by the sea in a bathing costume holding an umbrella like a Mack Sennett beauty.

She was also posed cuddling lion cubs from the nearby Selig Zoo, home of MGM's Leo the Lion. These early pictures would continue to haunt her and prompted Garbo to insist on a revised contract which stated that she would only pose directly in connection with her films.

Scott Reisfield was in the sixth grade when he finally became aware that his Aunt Kata was none other than the legendary Greta Garbo.

The woman who, in her 60s, spent two hours one afternoon showing him and his brother, Derek, how to do cartwheels was revered for such classics as Anna Karenina, Camille, Ninotchka, Mata Hari and Queen Christina.

The elegant babysitter who let him pit his plastic warriors against her hand-carved wooden trolls from Sweden during visits to her New York apartment threw the cinema world into despair when she walked away at the height of her fame. The aunt who took vacations with his mother was still a constant target of paparazzi half a century after her last film in 1941. ”That didn't mean much to a boy of 10,” Reisfield said by phone from his home in Boulder, Colo.

“I knew her as a person so she was a big deal to me as family. Her image to film fans around the world didn't affect my life but her coming to Thanksgiving dinner did,” said Reisfeild, who was 32 when she died at age 84 in 1990.

Reisfield, who grew up in New Jersey, whose mother is Garbo's brother's only daughter and heir, will be in Wichita Saturday to help open Garbo's Garbo, an exhibit of 80 original vintage photographs of his famous aunt.

Scott Reisfield: “She was very different from the caricature in tabloids and cartoons. She didn't 'vant to be alone' but she did like her privacy. The paparazzi would wait for a long time to get a photo of her with her hand covering her face. They could easily get shots of her walking down the street but that's not what they were selling. She went to shops and the dry cleaners like everybody else. When people recognized her, they respected her privacy. In New York, she came to be known as the 'hermit about town'.She also had a great sense of humour”

There is a favourite family story about how a New York shop girl thought she recognized a famous face and thanked 'Ms. Dietrich' for coming in.

“I guess she didn't get a good look at my legs,”
 Garbo chuckled to friends on the way out.

 
 
 
The Reisfield's - Introduction
  
 
Donald Reisfield 
  
 
Gray Reisfield 
  
 
Lian Reisfield 
  
 
Craig Reisfield 
  
 
Derek Reisfield 
  

 

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