The glamorous actress Greta Gynt was born 15th November 1916 in Oslo Norway as Margrethe Woxholt; she moved to Britain at a young age for a few years when her father’s work took the family there. At the age of 12 she started as a dancer at the Chat Noir shows in Oslo and subsequently moved back to Britain in 1935 and almost immediately made regular appearances in films as a femme fatale, British style, bringing sex and glamour into unsexy unglamorous films.
She famously put her arms around General Montgomery at the 8th Army Alamein reunion at the Royal Albert Hall, and gave him a big kiss; the photograph went round the world. Her picture was also widely seen when she turned up to meet the Queen, at the Royal Film Performance, wearing a silver lamé strapless gown, with silver hair, silver osprey feathers and a silver fox coat.
Her first British appearance was in an uncredited role in 1935’s It Happened in Paris – she then went on to playing leading roles including her appearance in the 1941 film Crook’s Tour – this was the third film outing for the Charters and Caldicott characters played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; Greta played the part of a British double agent (pictured) with the character names of La Palermo or Miss Deering.
Other films that she had significant roles in include Boys Will Be Girls 1937, The Last Curtain 1937, The Dark Eyes of London 1939, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1939, Two for Danger 1940, The Common Touch 1941, Tomorrow We Live 1943, London Town 1946, Shadow of the Eagle 1950, The Ringer 1952, Three Steps in the Dark 1953, Forbidden Cargo 1954, See How They Run 1955, Morning Call 1957 and Fortune is a Woman 1957. Her final film appearance was in 1963 in Runaway.
She died age 83 in London in 2000.
She famously put her arms around General Montgomery at the 8th Army Alamein reunion at the Royal Albert Hall, and gave him a big kiss; the photograph went round the world. Her picture was also widely seen when she turned up to meet the Queen, at the Royal Film Performance, wearing a silver lamé strapless gown, with silver hair, silver osprey feathers and a silver fox coat.
Her first British appearance was in an uncredited role in 1935’s It Happened in Paris – she then went on to playing leading roles including her appearance in the 1941 film Crook’s Tour – this was the third film outing for the Charters and Caldicott characters played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; Greta played the part of a British double agent (pictured) with the character names of La Palermo or Miss Deering.
Other films that she had significant roles in include Boys Will Be Girls 1937, The Last Curtain 1937, The Dark Eyes of London 1939, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1939, Two for Danger 1940, The Common Touch 1941, Tomorrow We Live 1943, London Town 1946, Shadow of the Eagle 1950, The Ringer 1952, Three Steps in the Dark 1953, Forbidden Cargo 1954, See How They Run 1955, Morning Call 1957 and Fortune is a Woman 1957. Her final film appearance was in 1963 in Runaway.
She died age 83 in London in 2000.
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