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Greta Granstedt (July 13, 1907 - October 7, 1987) was a Swedish- American Movie and Television Actress.
Irene "Greta" Granstedt was the second child of Theodore and Emma Granstedt born in Scandia, Kansas. The Granstedt family was one of the five pioneer families from Sweden who settled in this north central Kansas community in 1867-68. The families left Sweden in response to the terrible conditions in the three years of misery in Sweden. Granstedt spent the first thirteen years in Scandia Township, Republic County, Kansas. Her father, of the second generation Scandia residents, was of... MORE
Greta Granstedt (July 13, 1907 - October 7, 1987) was a Swedish- American Movie and Television Actress.
Irene "Greta" Granstedt was the second child of Theodore and Emma Granstedt born in Scandia, Kansas. The Granstedt family was one of the five pioneer families from Sweden who settled in this north central Kansas community in 1867-68. The families left Sweden in response to the terrible conditions in the three years of misery in Sweden. Granstedt spent the first thirteen years in Scandia Township, Republic County, Kansas. Her father, of the second generation Scandia residents, was of Norwegian and Swedish heritage. In 1920 her family moved to Mountain View, CA in Santa Clara County, California.
As a young teenager she was involved in an altercation with a boyfriend, Harold Galloway. Coming home from a church social, she confronted Harold with a pistol. The pistol went off and Harold was severely wounded. Galloway recovered, but Granstedt was sentenced to time in a reform school and was banished from Mountain View. Granstedt left Mountain View as a young woman and spent the next several years in San Francisco. Among other ways of making a living, she modeled at San Francisco Art LESS
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