10 Movies That Made Actors QUIT Forever

Greta Garbo is a name easily associated with Hollywood, and she is still regarded today as one of the greatest actresses of all time. Known for her ability to play tragic and sombre characters throughout the 1920s and 30s, Garbo began her career as a successful silent film star before breaking out into the talkies.

Garbo was the top box office star for the majority of her career, and by 1940 it looked as though her career would only get bigger.

In 1941, she starred in the rom-com Two-Faced Woman, which ended up being her last ever role. The film was universally panned, but performed well at the box office because of Garbo's star power. The actress was distraught by the movie's critical failure, though she didn't want to retire when it was released.

Instead, she was eager to get back to work, only for the war to interrupt her progress and force her to drop out of Hollywood altogether. Throughout the rest of her life she was offered many roles, including that of the iconic Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, but turned them all down with little reason.

Before her death in 1990, she admitted she retired because she was "done with the movies" and that she "didn't like her work."

A tragic and anti-climatic end to an otherwise startling career, fans can only imagine where she would have ended up had she kept her career alive.