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111: The Actress and the River Bride: Greta Granstedt, Bessie Hyde & a Forgotten Scandal
In this special holiday-week episode, we step away from our usual format to bring you a true-crime-meets-Hollywood story pulled from GIRLHUNT: the life of Greta Granstedt, a young woman who stepped onto a ship in 1927 as a nude art model and stepped off as a future film star with a new name—and a long-buried shooting scandal trailing behind her.
Long before Greta appeared on screen with icons like Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, and Boris Karloff, she was a teenager accused of shooting her boyfriend during a late-night confrontation that made national headlines.
And aboard that same ship?
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