Greta Granstedt

Highest Rated: 100% Road to Singapore (1940)

Lowest Rated: 43% The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Birthday: Jul 13, 1907

Birthplace: Not Available

Born Irene Granstedt, this Swedish starlet changed her first name for obvious reasons when entering films in 1928. No one, however, mistook Granstedt for Garbo and she went on to play a series of hardboiled roles seemingly deemed too small for the likes of Veda Ann Borg. Growing up in Mountain View, CA, Granstedt first made headlines when at 14 she shot and critically wounded a boyfriend who had committed the sin of accompanying another girl to a church social. According to newspaper reports, Greta Granstedt was sentenced "to leave Mountain View and never return." By the mid-'20s, she had recovered enough from the ordeal to appear opposite Joseph Schildkraut in a Los Angeles production of From Hell Came a Lady and had taken the second of her seven husbands. She made her screen debut in a small role in Buck Privates (1928), with European idol Lya de Putti, and her talkie debut in The Last Performance (1929). Again the role was miniscule and Granstedt would make her biggest impact in low-budget action films, including two serials. Her unfortunate past was dredged up again when she married musician Ramon Ramos but her reputation as the "Tragedy Girl" failed to open any new doors in Hollywood and she continued to play mainly bit parts. Some of these, however, were quite good and she is memorable as Beulah Bondi's daughter in the crime drama Street Scene (1931) and as Margo's hardboiled friend in the New York-lensed Crime Without Passion (1934). While in New York, Granstedt appeared in a couple of Broadway plays before returning to Hollywood for perhaps her best remembered role, that of Anna, one of the resistance workers in Beasts of Berlin (1939), the exploitation drama that put ramshackle PRC on the map. Her other 1940s roles were minor and she had to wait until 1958 and The Return of Dracula to make any kind of impact. In this not-as-bad-as-it-sounds horror pastiche she played a stout California housewife welcoming Francis Lederer's count to her suburban home -- with the expected results. Retiring permanently from the screen in 1970, Granstedt relocated to Canada and raised Appaloosa horses.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Last Escape	Gladys Hewitt	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Return of Dracula	Cora	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Juggler	Carah	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Eddie Cantor Story	Rachel Tobias	—	1953
43%	The Greatest Show on Earth	Woman	—	1952
88%	The Enforcer	Mrs. Lazick	—	1951
No Score Yet	Cause for Alarm	Mom	—	1951
No Score Yet	Dark City	Margie	—	1950
63%	Samson and Delilah	Woman	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Crooked Way	Hazel	—	1949
88%	Joan of Arc	Townswoman (uncredited)	—	1948
No Score Yet	On Our Merry Way	Secretary	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blondie's Secret	Mona	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Gangster	Woman	—	1947
80%	Unconquered	Woman	—	1947
No Score Yet	Nocturne	Clara	—	1946
83%	The Razor's Edge	Hospital Telephone Operator	—	1946
No Score Yet	Our Vines Have Tender Grapes	Mrs. Faraassen	—	1945
No Score Yet	Roughly Speaking	Anna the Maid	—	1945
No Score Yet	Here Come the Waves	Wave Control Tower Operator	—	1944
No Score Yet	First Comes Courage	Girl Assistant	—	1943
No Score Yet	Dangerous Lady	Leila Bostwick	—	1941
No Score Yet	Third Finger, Left Hand	Selma	—	1940
83%	Stranger on the Third Floor	Chambermaid	—	1940
100%	Road to Singapore	Babe	—	1940
No Score Yet	When Tomorrow Comes	Waitress	—	1939
No Score Yet	Hitler -- Beast of Berlin	Anna	—	1939
No Score Yet	There Goes My Heart	The Maid	—	1938
86%	You and Me	Girl	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Kaidu Maid	—	1938
No Score Yet	Telephone Operator	Sylvia Sommers	—	1938
No Score Yet	Crime Without Passion	Della	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Devil Horse	Linda Weston	—	1932
No Score Yet	Night World	Blonde	—	1932
No Score Yet	They Never Come Back	Mary Nolan	—	1932
No Score Yet	After Tomorrow	Betty	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Devil Horse	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Hat Check Girl	A party guest	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Deceiver	Celia Adams	—	1931
100%	Street Scene	Mae Jones	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Secret Witness	Moll	—	1931
No Score Yet	Sunny Skies	College Widow	—	1930

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Manager Mrs. Sommers	1964 1962

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