The enticing, voluptuous beauty of European import Greta Thyssen filled out the pages of movie magazines everywhere during the 1950s. Born in the early 1930s, she was a freshly-scrubbed brunette when she won the Miss Denmark crown in 1951. The subsequent attention had her packing her bags for Hollywood. At that time Marilyn Monroe had become an ...
Well, as an actress, you know instinctively what to do. And so that's what I did.
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[on learning scripts in English] It has nothing to do with accents. It has to do with what memory you have. When I began to do summer stock, often people would say, "You don't have an accent when you speak the lines." It would go away many times. But of course, I've never gotten rid of it. I never even tried to get rid of it, which I should have done.
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[on when she first came to Hollywood] I got, I think it was, a six-month contract with MGM, even though it was the end of their moneymaking days. So they didn't really do anything with me, and allowed me to work outside. I got offers for certain things, and I did them.
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Currently resides in New York City. [June 2010]
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Gave birth to her only child at age 35, a daughter Genevieve Juliette Guenther on February 14, 1969. Child's father is her fourth husband, Theodore Guenther.
While in only three shorts with The Three Stooges, she was hit with a cream cake in Quiz Whizz (1958) and took a gooey cream pie in the face in Pies and Guys (1958).
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She attempted to follow the footsteps of reigning platinum blonde sex symbols Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield by forging a movie career for herself.
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Miss Denmark 1952
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967
Greta
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
1965
La Belle
Journey to the Seventh Planet
1962
Greta Thyssen
Michael Shayne
1961
TV Series
Greta Maxwell
Three Blondes in His Life
1961
Helen Fortner
Lock Up
1960
TV Series
Hilda Mueller
Bachelor Father
1960
TV Series
Paula Tabore
M Squad
1960
TV Series
Lisa
Catch Me If You Can
1959
Shadows
1959
Girl at Party (as Greta Thysen)
Terror Is a Man
1959
Frances Girard
Sappy Bull Fighters
1959
Short
Greta
Frontier Doctor
1958
TV Series
Pies and Guys
1958
Short
Miss Lulu
The Beast of Budapest
1958
Christi
Quiz Whizz
1958
Short
Lisa, Montgomery's Accomplice
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1957
TV Series
Sexy Secretary
Perry Mason
1957
TV Series
Roxy Howard
Dragnet
1957
TV Series
Telephone Time
1957
TV Series
Accused of Murder
1956
Myra Bayless
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
1956
TV Series
Frieda
Schlitz Playhouse
1956
TV Series
Lydia
Treasure Hunt
1956
TV Series
Pirate Girl
Bus Stop
1956
Cover Girl (uncredited)
Op og ned langs kysten
1950
Bikinipige
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bus Stop
1956
body double: Marilyn Monroe - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
My Friend Greta
Documentary filming
Herself
Here's Hollywood
1961
TV Series
Herself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hey Moe, Hey Dad!
2015
TV Series documentary
Various characters
Known for movies
Terror Is a Man (1959) as Frances Girard
Shadows (1959) as Girl at Party
Three Blondes in His Life (1961) as Helen Fortner
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) as Greta Thyssen
$800,000
