Greta Granstedt

Greta Granstedt was an American actress who worked in film, television and on the stage from the 1920s into the 1960s. Born in 1907, she moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and acted in stage productions there, among them From Hell Came a Lady opposite Joseph Schildkraut. Her early screen work included a small part in Buck Privates (1928) and her sound debut in The Last Performance. She went on to play mainly bit parts, among them the daughter of Beulah Bondi's character in Street Scene (1931) and a friend of Margo in Crime Without Passion (1934). In the mid 1930s she appeared in Broadway plays, then returned to Hollywood for Hitler, Beast of Berlin, playing Anna Wahl opposite Alan Ladd. Later roles came in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), as Mrs. Lars Faraassen, and The Return of Dracula (1958). Her later television work included Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Lassie and Dragnet. She died in 1987.