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Elvis Presley takes a break from shooting G.I. Blues at Paramount Pictures Studios to meet with princesses Margrethe of Denmark, Astrid of Norway, and Margaretha of Sweden (l-r). June 11, 1960. New York Times published an article about this meeting on June 8th : HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 7 — European and Hollywood royalty met today and neither group was fazed. In the Hollywood phase of their journey the Princesses saw two movies being filmed at Paramount and met Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse. It has also been reported that the Scandinavian Princesses visited Dean Martin’s birthday party on the set …
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Elvis Presley takes a break from shooting G.I. Blues at Paramount Pictures Studios to meet with princesses Margrethe of Denmark, Astrid of Norway, and Margaretha of Sweden (l-r). June 11, 1960.

New York Times published an article about this meeting on June 8th :

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 7 — European and Hollywood royalty met today and neither group was fazed.

In the Hollywood phase of their journey the Princesses saw two movies being filmed at Paramount and met
Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse.

It has also been reported that the Scandinavian Princesses visited Dean Martin’s birthday party on the set …

Christina:  We might have been born in different centuries.Don Antonio:  No, I never would have permitted that. Were inevitable, dont you feel it ?Christina:  I feel it. But you, how can you be so sure? You know me so little.Don Antonio:  Thats true. Theres a mystery in you.Christina: Is there not in every human being?Don Antonio: Yes. Tell me, you said you would, why did you come to this inn dressed as a man?Christina: In my home, Im very constrained. Everything is arranged very formally.Don Antonio: A conventional household.Christina: Very. I like to get away from it sometimes, to be free.Don Antonio: I can understand that. Greta Garbo as Her Majesty The Queen Christina of Sweden 1933. Greta Garbo Birthday 18 September 1905 Stockholm Sweden.
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Christina:  We might have been born in different centuries.
Don Antonio:  No, I never would have permitted that. Were inevitable, dont you feel it ?
Christina:  I feel it. But you, how can you be so sure? You know me so little.
Don Antonio:  Thats true. Theres a mystery in you.
Christina: Is there not in every human being?
Don Antonio: Yes. Tell me, you said you would, why did you come to this inn dressed as a man?
Christina: In my home, Im very constrained. Everything is arranged very formally.
Don Antonio: A conventional household.
Christina: Very. I like to get away from it sometimes, to be free.
Don Antonio: I can understand that.

Greta Garbo as Her Majesty The Queen Christina of Sweden 1933.

Greta Garbo Birthday 18 September 1905 Stockholm Sweden.

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