People: People, Mar. 3, 1947

Blondes

"I hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000....

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