{"podcast":{"title":"pplpod","slug":"pplpod-7466994","podcast_index_feed_id":7466994,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/pplpod/feed.xml","website_url":"https://pplpod.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/pplpod/20250829_120838_d1e6f81b658588b9ceec59626863052b.png","author":"pplpod","episode_count":7800,"summary":"pplpod is a podcast about people, places and lots of other stuff. Each episode takes a deep dive into the lives, choices, and legacies of fascinating figures from history, culture, music, and beyond. From icons who shaped entire generations to hidden stories that deserve the spotlight, pplpod brings you closer to the people behind the headlines and the legends. Thoughtful, engaging, and story-driven, pplpod explores what makes these lives extraordinary—and what we can learn from them today.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T16:18:20.391315+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pplpod-7466994"},"episode":{"title":"Greta Garbo: The Biggest Star in Hollywood Who Vanished in Plain Sight","slug":"greta-garbo-the-biggest-star-in-hollywood-who-vanished-in-plain-sight","published_at":"2026-06-14T20:21:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pplpod-7466994/greta-garbo-the-biggest-star-in-hollywood-who-vanished-in-plain-sight","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pplpod-7466994","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/pplpod/2914793","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/344999/2914793/pplpod/2026_06_14_20_13_18_a2f3fcbc-c7b1-4d09-a85f-29c532a1d199.mp3","summary":"Greta Garbo was the most famous woman in the world — and at thirty-six, she walked away from all of it. She made her last film in 1941 and spent the next forty-nine years living in a Manhattan apartment, walking the streets in sunglasses and a headscarf, refusing every interview, every comeback offer, and every attempt to draw her back into public life. Her retirement was not a breakdown or a failure — it was a choice so absolute that it became more famous than any role she ever played. This episode traces Garbo from her working-class Stockholm childhood through the silent films that made her a legend, the transition to talkies, and the five decades of deliberate silence that turned her absence into the most compelling performance of her career. Garbo's impoverished Swedish childhood and her discovery by director Mauritz Stiller The silent film era, the transition to talkies, and the roles that made her MGM's biggest star The sudden retirement at thirty-six and her refusal to explain why she left Forty-nine years of Manhattan solitude and how her absence became more famous than her films","meta_description":"Greta Garbo was the most famous woman in the world — and at thirty-six, she walked away from all of it. She made her last film in 1941 and spent the next…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1478,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pplpod-7466994/episodes/greta-garbo-the-biggest-star-in-hollywood-who-vanished-in-plain-sight/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pplpod-7466994/greta-garbo-the-biggest-star-in-hollywood-who-vanished-in-plain-sight.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}